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In the early hours of 3 June 1893, a black day-laborer named Samuel J. Bush was forcibly taken from the Macon County, Illinois, jail and lynched. [1] [2] Mr. Bush stood accused of raping Minnie Cameron Vest, a white woman, who lived in the nearby town of Mount Zion.
Later that night a black Pontiac Bonneville was discovered in central Illinois on westbound I-72 with its engine still running, its headlights on, and the driver's side door open. [4] The car was registered to David Swann, Slover's boyfriend, but contained some of Slover's personal effects including her purse and driver's license.
Jorge Avila-Torrez (born August 18, 1988) [1] is an American serial killer and rapist. A resident of Zion, Illinois, Avila-Torrez murdered two girls who lived in his neighborhood in 2005 and later murdered a female Petty officer in 2009 at Joint Base Myer–Henderson Hall.
Deaths Description Sources Elijah Parish Lovejoy: Alton: 1837-11-07: 1: Minister, newspaper editor, and abolitionist killed by a pro-slavery mob, became a martyr to the abolitionist cause [59] Killing of Joseph Smith: Carthage: 1844-06-27: 2: Founder of Latter Day Saint movement killed along with his brother by a mob [60] [61] [62] Lynching of ...
He was buried at the Mount Zion Old School Baptist Church-VDHR 53-339 in Aldie. [21] October 6, 1863: James R. O'Neill: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper: Baxter Springs, Kansas: O'Neill was an artist-correspondent murdered by Quantrill's guerrillas at the Baxter Springs Massacre. [22] May 6, 1864: Samuel Fiske (aka Dunn Browne) Springfield ...
Voliva was born on a farm in Indiana on March 10, 1870. In 1889, he entered Union Christian College, Merom Indiana; he graduated five years later and became a minister. In 1898 he was drawn to the teachings of John Alexander Dowie and eventually joined his congregation, becoming an elder of the Christian Catholic Church of Zion, Illinois.
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He bought land 40 miles (60 km) north of Chicago to found Zion, where he personally owned all of the land and most businesses. The city was named after Mount Zion in Jerusalem. [3] Dowie also founded the Zion Tabernacle of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church, which was the only church in town.