Hi Jan! Perhaps John Mallory Land could help you with this one. I believe it was his g-grandpa or gg-grandpa Land who was involved, around 1912 or thereabouts. It may be somewhere around where the library is now located as that was outside the city limits at that time. Several years ago there was a story in the Ledger about it and I remember asking Mrs. Alma McGee about it and she said that folks did not talk about it. Patricia Cantrell Columbus, GA

Jan and All, The White boy who was killed, Cedron Cleophas LAND, was the son of my g-gf's double first cousin. When the Black boy, T. Z. "Teasy" McELHANEY (born COTTON, adopted by his step-father George McELHANEY), was convicted of "just" manslaughter in the case, he was abducted from the courthouse, taken on the streetcar line to just outside the Columbus city limits at the Wynnton switch, and shot numerous times. Cedron's father William Lokey "Will" LAND, his brother Robert Edward Lee "Ed" LAND, and my g-gf Aaron Brewster LAND were three of the four men put on trial for the lynching, but were acquitted. Billy WINN's seven-part series on the incident ran in the Ledger-Enquirer from Sunday, 25 JAN 1987 to Saturday, 31 JAN 1987. Any photos in the article that you can't copy well from the microfilm, I will be glad to scan from the newspaper clippings and email to you - just let me know. John in TX PACA1509@aol.com wrote: >Hi Jan! > Perhaps John Mallory Land could help you with this one. I believe it was >his g-grandpa or gg-grandpa Land who was involved, around 1912 or thereabouts. >It may be somewhere around where the library is now located as that was outside >the city limits at that time. Several years ago there was a story in the >Ledger about it and I remember asking Mrs. Alma McGee about it and she said that >folks did not talk about it. > Patricia Cantrell > Columbus, GA > > >