James Milligan
James Milligan was held in the jail at Albany, in Gentry County, when a mob took him from the civil officers and hanged him from a tree on July 5, 1858, according to a St. Joseph newspaper quoting a traveler. The account says a guard of citizens had been posted around the jail, and that the mob acted after the county court declined to pay for that guard. Before he died, Milligan asked to be baptized and the request was granted; his father met him at the stream, a meeting the account describes as affecting. The report is secondhand, carried by the Memphis Daily Appeal.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took James Milligan from civil officers at the Albany jail in Gentry County and hanged him from a tree, according to a St. Joseph newspaper quoting a traveler.
Reported by: St. Joseph newspaper quoting a traveler (reporters).