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A Daring Female Hero in a Lynching Saga 1849
In a Columbus Enquirer narrative from September 18 1849 a violent frontier event is recounted. Mary Lilmore, wife and daughter of the counterfeiter Lilmore, defies lynchers by firing a double barreled gun during an attack on her cabin. The assailants kill the captor and several others, while Mary’s bravely saved family as the lynching party disperses. The piece claims her acquittal later, and notes abolition of lynching in that prairie community.
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N.Y
Mary Sismore
Missouri
Mississippi Valley
Ogark Mountains
Phett
Morta
Prairies
Mary Sillmore
John Mays
Far West
Tom Barker
General Jackson
Barker
Mary
Mays Turneed
Fin
Parson Brady
Jack Coulter
Lilmore
Spring River
Lewis Silmore
Jine
Rcular Court of Justice
Silmore
Silnoro
Springfield
Eliza
Anasnalems
Byer
Ecuinterfeiter
Khan
Lismore
Captain Mays
Villian
Bob Mays
Sister Mary
Merey
Mays
Ain
Minerva
Jaspers
Mary Lilmore
Mary Silmore
Texas
Bewreen
Biast
Anaconidi
Coleman
England
Berlin
Charlidge
Spaxstone
Agapemony
Prinos
Nottidge
Prince
Wales