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Honey

Okmulgee

Honey was executed at Okmulgee in the Indian nation, together with another man, Lillie, according to a news dispatch from Little Rock printed in April 1882. The dispatch says the two men were led from the jail and shot dead by rifle fire in front of about fifty to sixty people. It reports that there was no disturbance, and that both men had professed conversion and joined the Methodist Church, dying in the hope of eternal life.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: news dispatch from Little Rock (reporters).

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