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Lillie

Okmulgee

Lillie was put to death with another man, Honey, at Okmulgee in the Indian nation. A news dispatch from Little Rock, printed in the Sacramento Daily Record-Union in April 1882, reported that the two men were led from the jail and shot by rifle fire in front of about fifty to sixty people. According to the report, there was no disturbance, and 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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