Died in custody
Oliver Wideman
Oliver Wideman lived with his wife on the farm of W. K. Jay in the Troy section of Greenwood County, South Carolina. The Dakota Farmers' Leader reported that after a dispute at the Jay place, Mr. Jay was found dead in his yard, and that Wideman and his wife were then taken into custody. While a constable was taking them to jail, the paper says, a crowd of Jay's neighbors stopped them at the Winterset bridge and lynched them both on January 2, 1903.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper report says a crowd of W. K. Jay's neighbors stopped the constable taking Oliver Wideman to jail at the Winterset bridge and lynched her.
Reported by: newspaper report.