Live Breaking News & Updates on Darby Carney

Stay updated with breaking news from Darby carney. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.

Efforts underway to mark grave of Milwaukee's lone lynching victim


It took Tyrone MackLee Randle Jr., two days to find it.
The 28-year-old artist and activist, along with two friends, combed Section 17 in the city’s largest and oldest cemetery looking for the final resting place of George Marshall Clark.
In the early morning hours of Sept. 8, 1861, Clark became Milwaukee’s only lynching victim. Clark was hastily buried that day in Forest Home Cemetery, somewhere in Section 17, a grassy knoll now dotted with 200-year-old trees. He was 24 years old, according to cemetery records.
That’s where Randle and his friends searched among a patchwork of graves, some marked by weather-beaten headstones, others unmarked, buried beneath the Earth. They made pencil rubbings to trace barely legible inscriptions, to no avail. ....

Cathedral Square , United States , Third Ward , Forest Home Cemetery , Milwaukee County , Kevin Abing , George Floyd , George Marshall Clark , Tyrone Macklee Randle Jr , Sara Tomilin , Darby Carney , Garen Morris , Jamesp Shelton , Wisconsin Black Historical Society , Forest Home Historic Preservation Association , Milwaukee County Historical Society , Milwaukee Institute Of Art , George Marshall , Milwaukee Institute , Milwaukee County Historical , Clayborn Benson , Wisconsin Black Historical , கதீட்ரல் சதுரம் , ஒன்றுபட்டது மாநிலங்களில் , மூன்றாவது வார்டு , காடு வீடு கல்லறை ,