Baker County GaArchives Obituaries.....McCoy, Garfield June 1903
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The Marion County Patriot, July 3, 1903
The Marion County Patriot, No. 27
July 3, 1903
Page Six

Triple Lynching In Georgia

Three Negroes Meet Death At Hands Of Mob In Baker County

Baker County, Ga. was the scene of a triple lynching early Friday morning.  The 
affair took place about a mile from Newton, the county seat and 21 miles below 
Albany.

The mob’s victims were George McKinney, Garfield McCoy and Wiley Anette, 
Negroes who murdered F.S. Bullard, a white farmer living near Peace, in Baker 
County.  They were forcibly taken from the jail at Newton.


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