Will Johnson

Will Johnson was held in a Georgia jail when, according to a January 1911 newspaper dispatch, a mob took him from the jail and burned him at the stake near Avers. Members of the mob claimed that he got away from them. The dispatch does not say how the jail staff responded to the mob.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Unnamed reports say a mob took Will Johnson from a jail near Avers, Georgia, and burned him at the stake; members of the mob claimed he got away from them.

Reported by: unnamed reports; members of the mob.

Source

• Evening Times-Republican, January 23, 1911, page 1 Evening Times-Republican, January 23, 1911