Josiah Record was a store keeper at Trinity Mills, Dallas County, Texas.

He was taken into custody for having said he did not believe the South had the capability of sustaining or winning the Civil War. He was lynched by two of his captors assigned to guard him, who I believe were under the command of Richard M Gano, but were not acting under his orders.

Three of Josiah Record's sons served in the Confederate Army. After the war one of them tracked down, shot and killed one of his father's lynchers. He was not charged with the killing.

The second lyncher would also be killed but I do not have confirmation that it was done by the same son.

A few years later two of Josiah Record's younger sons and several companions were lynched for rustling livestock. I have a fairly complete account of that which was compiled by Curtis Flatt.

All of the above took place in northwestern Dallas and northeastern Tarrant Counties; the lynching of Josiah at Keenan's Crossing on Elm Fork of the Trinity, the lynching of his sons near Hackberry Creek in the vicinity of Coppell where they were buried, and the killing of the second lyncher of Josiah in Grapevine.

Does anyone have more complete deatils? I have only partial identification of Josiah's lynchers and have not been able to confirm their names on any muster rolls of any of Gano's units.

M C Toyer