William Potter’s lynching is extremely graphic and is strongly issued as a trigger warning. Located in Livermore, KY, William Potter was accused of shooting Clarence (Frank) Mitchell, a 22-year-old white man in a barroom. On April 20th, 1911, a local sheriff was hiding him in the Whitaker Opera House and Skating Rink basement and a […]
William Clifford, also known as W.M. Clifford or Will Clifford, was a farmhand and laborer from Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio. Born to Mary and John in February of 1867, Clifford had up to five siblings. By the year 1900 he was the only child living at home, he was 33 years of age. The following […]
Henry Allen was a white male coal miner and a boarder of Muhlenberg county, Kentucky. Allen was married to Mary Daniel, and had one male child by her named Aubry Nicholas Allen, who died at the age of 2 in 1911. Allen was also an indicted active member of the “Possum Hunters Gang,” which was […]
Virgil Bowers was an African American man residing in London, Kentucky. Information about his life, including birth and census records, is not available. The information about the lynching of Virgil Bowers is provided by several contemporaneous news sources. Bowers was prosecuted in two trials for the shooting and killing of George Farris, a notable lumber […]
