Owen

Owen was taken from a jail by a party of about one hundred citizens, according to a dispatch from Columbus, Georgia, published in The Silver State on November 3, 1877. The dispatch says the group carried him into the woods, where he was burned to death on November 2, 1877. The dispatch's account of how he died is unverified and comes from a single unnamed report.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. An unnamed report in a Columbus, Ga. dispatch says a party of about one hundred citizens took Owen from a jail and burned him in the woods.

Reported by: unnamed report in a Columbus, Ga. dispatch (reporters).

Source

• The Silver State, November 3, 1877, page 2 The Silver State, November 3, 1877