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Stinson Ferguson

He sustained a gunshot wound to the abdomen and was declared dead on arrival at Grady Hospital.

Age
25
Where they lived
Thurmond Street, northwest Atlanta
Where they died
Grady Hospital
Date
22 September 1906
Buried
South-View Cemetery

Counted in 2023

His original Fulton County Board of Health “return of a death” certificate was located. It carried the word “riot.”

NCCHR Truth and Transformation Initiative, with the Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project and the Afro-American Genealogical Historical Society

What we don’t know

  • His occupation
  • Who his family were
  • Where exactly he was shot

Sources

  1. National Center for Civil and Human Rights, “Unearthing the Past: Identifying Victims of the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre”