The effort to remember George Ward and for the community to acknowledge the injustice got momentum from several sources, including the Terre Haute Facing Injustice project, the Greater Terre Haute NAACP branch, the national Community Remembrance Project of the Equal Justice Initiative based in Montgomery, Ala., Terre Haute historian Crystal Reynolds, and Terry Ward and his family, as well as others. "It represents to us the proper burial that many African Americans desire to have," Ward added, "and to let the spirit be free." "From that perspective, we were trying to get a place to rest for him," Terry Ward said of his great-grandfather, following Monday afternoon's small, private ceremony. A second historical marker also was placed in the cemetery. On Monday, a jar of soil gathered from the area near George Ward's 1901 lynching was buried at Highland Lawn, near the graves of his daughter-in-law, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The brutality denied Ward due process under the law, after Ward - a Terre Haute father, husband and worker - had been accused of murdering a young schoolteacher, Ida Finkelstein, and arrested that same day. That's close to where Ward was lynched by the violent mob that stormed the Vigo County Jail and hanged him from the Wabash River bridge. 26, 2021, a historical marker was placed on Fairbanks Park's north side.
The event was the second remembrance of George Ward, and the injustice inflicted on him, in the Terre Haute community. George Ward never received a proper burial.Ī ceremony on Monday afternoon at Highland Lawn Cemetery gave George Ward's memory a resting place.
No one from the throng, which totaled more than 1,000 people, was ever held responsible for that atrocity in 1901. One-hundred and 21 years after his African American great-grandfather, George Ward, was lynched in Terre Haute by a vicious white mob that also burned his body.
27-Terry Ward felt a measure of peace Monday afternoon.
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