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A

  • Allen, Henry
  • Ardell, Harry
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B

  • Baker, Ernest
  • Beard, Lewis “Lon”
  • Bell, Arthur
  • Boston, Marshall
  • Bowers, Virgil
  • Boyer, Robert; Jones, John; Jones, Virgil; and Riley, Joe
  • Brame, Benjamin “Booker”
  • Brinkley III, Ephraim
  • Brown, Thomas “Tom”
  • Buckner, Ellis
  • Bumpus, Joseph (alternate spelling Bumpass)
  • Bushrod, Raymond
  • Butcher, William
  • B.F. Carrier, B.F.; Effington William; King, L.M.; Thomas, John
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C

  • Campbell, John and Sam
  • Carroll, Charles
  • Carter, George
  • Chicago Tribune Annual List of Lynchings nationwide, 1900 to 1910
  • Clifford, William
  • Coffey, Robert
  • Colbert, Henry
  • Colston, Abithal (aka Bithael Colson) and Smith, Mollie (aka Maud Smith)
  • Cooper, Nelson and Bailey, Sam (also recorded as Sam Daily)
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D

  • Dempsey, Lawrence
  • Dewley, Ernest
  • Dooley, Bill
  • Drake, Elijah; Smith, Henry; and , James Stewart
  • Durrett, Luther, and Kinley, Brack
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E

  • Esters, Silas (also documented as Silas Easter)
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F

  • Fields, Jimbo and Garnett, Clarence
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G

  • General Resources
  • Grainger, Job (or Jobe)
  • Griffey, Willis
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H

  • Haggard, Robert
  • Hicks, Wesley and Taylor, Jerry
  • Hill, Elmer (possible last name Holt)
  • Howton, Hewlett (also known as James Hewlett Howton)
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J

  • James, Richard
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L

  • Laferdetta, Louis
  • Lovern, Moses
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M

  • Maxey, John
  • Mayes, James
  • May, Richard
  • McDowell, Jake (or Jacob)
  • Merrick, Walter
  • Miller, Wallace (or Wallis)
  • Morton, Robert
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P

  • Potter, William
  • Pullim, Sam (also listed as Sam Pulliam)
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R

  • Ray, George
  • Richardson, Joseph (aka Joe)
  • Rich, Berry
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S

  • Sarver, Robert
  • Scott, George
  • Scott, Rex
  • Skaggs, Will
  • Smith, Grant
  • Stivers, C.P. (Christopher P.)
  • Stone, James “Jim”
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T

  • Thacker, William J.
  • Traughber, Edwin
  • Tutt, George
  • Tyler, William
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W

  • Walker Family
  • Warfield, Henry “Fratus”
  • Weaver, Tom
  • West, James; Marshall, Eugene; and Patterson, Wade
  • West, Martha and Dever, William
  • Williams, Jackson “Jack”
  • Willis, Wick (or Wyck)
  • Wilson, George
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Name George Stark
Gender Male
Race White
County Allen
Date July 10, 1877
Charge Murder and suspected criminal intimacy with an unmarried white woman
Mob composition unknown
About DRVK
The University of Kentucky History department and the Commonwealth Institute of Black Studies at the University of Kentucky initiated a pilot internship project entitled Documenting Racial Violence in Kentucky (the DRVK Project).

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