Lunas Morris

In the Boonesville section of rural Virginia, where mountain roads and tight-knit families tied neighbors together as much as the land did, the life of Lunas Morris ended violently on June 23, 1923. Lunas Morris was a man about 40 years old, and the shock of his death rippled through the community that knew his name, his kin, and the rhythms of his daily work.

Accounts preserved in later references to the case describe the death as a fatal shooting, the kind of sudden, close-to-home viole ...

Primary Sources: Greene Co. Newspapers