Ward

Freeman Ward was held in the guard house at Union City, Tennessee, in April 1885. A Nashville dispatch printed in the Caldwell Tribune on April 24, 1885, reports that a crowd of armed citizens took him and another man, Farris, from the guard house and hanged Ward from the same tree used in an earlier March lynching. A year-end review in the True Northerner gives a different account, saying a crowd took a man named Ward from the sheriff at Union City and hanged him.

Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody

Sources (4)

• Mccook Weekly Tribune, March 26, 1885, page 6 Mccook Weekly Tribune, March 26, 1885
• The Caldwell Tribune, March 27, 1885, page 2 The Caldwell Tribune, March 27, 1885
• The Caldwell Tribune, April 24, 1885, page 3 The Caldwell Tribune, April 24, 1885
• The True Northerner, December 31, 1885, page 2 The True Northerner, December 31, 1885