Eliza Lyon had watched from a distance as white men killed her husband, Abe, after grabbing him while he was paralyzed by fright. She spent the night in the woods, in her bedclothes, hiding with her girls by her side, wondering what had happened to her son, William, who had disappeared during the raid. After their attackers finally left and she saw she could return without harm, Eliza went to survey the damage and confirm the gruesome details of her husband’s death.14 She was horrified by what she saw; a coroner later reported that Abe’s murderers had inflicted more than thirty bullet wounds
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