This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lester Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/5277 Message Board Post: Galveston Daily News – Tues., 20 Nov 1877, p. 2, c. 4 Rockdale Messenger: Geo. Lester, charged with killing a negro in Devil’s Bend, Milam county, about a year ago, and once sentenced to be hung but granted a new trial, died of scurvy in the Cameron jail last Tuesday.