Thursday, July 15, 2021

Negro Who Was Hung and His Body Dissected

Jackson Free Press

It is said that Dr. William McGehee, who practiced medicine in the county perhaps a century ago, in prosecuting his studies,  obtained the body of a Negro, who had been hung, dissected it, and constructed his own skeleton.


Source: Liberty Advocate, Liberty, Miss., Dec 6, 1851

             Source Material for the Mississippi History, Amite County Volume III, Part Two

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