Executed
John Terry
The Gloucester County Democrat reported in a brief item published June 4, 1885, that John Terry was hanged at Barnwell, South Carolina. The item gives no date of death, no facility where he was held, and no account of who carried out the hanging or under what authority. This entry is drawn only from that single short report, and the details of his life and death are not recorded in it.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: brief news item in this issue.