Volume 13 , Issue 46

NW Okie's Corner

Awhile back I shared a story of a 1884 January Lynching in Monterey, Virginia of a bad man (E. D. Atcheson) that the community was afraid of, which my Great Grandfather (John Robert Warwick) or a 3rd great uncle with the same name may have been a part of the mob that stormed the Monterey jail and dragged Atcheson to a hanging tree near Vanderpool and lynched Atcheson (or Atchinson).

recently this last week I was browsing old newspapers from the 1884 era around Virginia and found this article mentioning the Monterey Lynching. The article was found in The Daily Dispatch of Richmond, Virginia, 1850-1884, dated January 11, 1884, Image 3, brought to you by Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA, and the National Digital Newspaper Program.

Someone told me that there was more information at the Mansion House Museum in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. I found their website and contacted them to see what other information I could find out about the Warwick ancestry and the January 1884 lynching of Atchinson near Monterey, Virginia.

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