Casualties Of Nat Turner's Rebellion

Children were the group that suffered the most casualties (in the first few minutes of the insurgency, a nine year old was hacked to death, and an infant in a crib was stabbed to death) and arguably the most brutal deaths, evidenced by a stop that Turner and his insurgents made at a school full of elementary-aged children: After killing the teacher, the insurgents systematically decapitated ten of the children and piled their corpses in ritualistic fashion in front of the school. One eleven-year-old girl avoided this fate-- she was repeatedly struck in the body with an axe and died shortly thereafter.

MEN

# Joseph Travis-- The current master of Nat Turner. Along with his wife, hacked to death in his sleep with an axe.
# Joel Westbrook-- Fourteen year old apprentice to Joseph Travis. Hacked to death with axes.
# Henry Bryant-- White slaveowner. Hacked and stabbed to death with axes.
# Salanthial "Sal" Francis-- White slaveowner. Lured from his one-room cabin and stabbed and clubbed to death.
# William Reese Sr.-- White slaveowner, owner of one of the slaves involved in the rebellion. Hacked to death with axes.
# Hartwell Peebles-- Overseer at the Turner Plantation. Shot to death.
# Richard Whitehead-- Methodist preacher, son of the widow Caty Whitehead. He was in a field when approached by Turner and the rebels, who beckoned for him to come see them as they stood beneath a tree. When Whitehead approached, he was beaten down, and as he begged for his life, was chopped into pieces with an axe.
# Nathaniel Francis-- White slaveowner. A slave who witnessed the murder of Sally Travis ran to warn Francis, and Francis was on his way to confirm the slave's news when insurgents approached his farm and murdered him along with his three-year-old nephew, elementary-school aged nephew, and overseer
# Henry Doyle-- Nathaniel Francis' overseer. Shot to death.
# John Barrow-- Farmer. A veteran of the War Of 1812 , he fought the insurgents in fierce hand-to-hand combat, nearly killing a few before they finally overtook him and slit his throat. While Barrow fought the slaves, his wife escaped harm. Impressed with Barrow's bravery, the insurgents wrapped his corpse in a white blanket in preparation for his burial.
# Ed Drury-- Overseer at a farm neighboring that of Jacob Williams. Disemboweled.
# George Vaughn-- Son of Rebecca Vaughn. Stabbed, hacked, and shot to death.
# ?-- Overseer for Rebecca Vaughn's farmland.
# Bill Williams-- Plantation owner. Stabbed, hacked, and shot to death.

WOMEN

# Sally Travis-- Wife of Joseph Travis. Along with her husband, hacked to death in her sleep with an axe.
# ? Bryant-- Wife of Henry Bryant. Stabbed and hacked to death with axes.
# ?-- Mother-in-law of Henry Bryant. Stabbed and hacked to death with axes.
# Piety Reese-- Wife of William Reese Sr. Stabbed and hacked to death in her sleep.
# Elizabeth Turner-- The young widow of Nat's former master. Hacked to death along with her neighbor, Sarah Newsom, as they knelt hiding from the rebels
# Sarah Newsom-- Neighbor and friend of Elizabeth Turner. Beaten over the head with a sword and then chopped into pieces.
# Caty Whitehead-- A young widow with five teenage daughters who was known around town for her hospitality to not only whites but also free blacks and slaves. Dragged from her home and killed by having her neck struck with an axe with such force that it was nearly cut off.
# ? Whitehead-- First teenage daughter of Caty Whitehead. Hacked and stabbed to death.
# ? Whitehead-- Second teenage daughter of Caty Whitehead. Hacked and stabbed to death.
# ? Whitehead-- Third teenage daughter of Caty Whitehead. Hacked and stabbed to death.
# Margaret Whitehead-- Teenage daughter of Caty Whitehead. Nat Turner chased her through a field until she tripped and fell, and then struck her in the head repeatedly with the butt of his sword before bludgeoning her to death with a fence post.
# ? Williams-- Wife of slaveowner John "Choctaw" Williams. Chopped into pieces with an axe along with her child.
# Levi Waller-- School teacher who was conducting classes with elementary-school aged children when the school was attacked by insurgents. She was hacked and stabbed to death while attempting to protect her students, who were themselves subsequently decapitated.'
# ? Worrell-- Wife of overseer Caswell Worrell. Stabbed and hacked to death.
# ? Williams-- Wife of Jacob Williams. Stabbed and hacked to death.
# Rebecca Vaughn-- A young widow whose house was along the route that the insurgents were taking. She was preparing lunch for friends of her son's when the insurgents approached. She offered them everything inside the home if they would spare her; an insurgent then blew her face off with a rifle.
# Anne Williams-- Eighteen year old niece of Rebecca Vaughn who was in her aunt's care. She was getting dressed to greet her cousin's friends when she heard the gunshot that killed her aunt. She came downstairs and was shot to death by insurgents, who then posed her corpse in the yard so that it would burn in the sun.
# ? Williams-- Wife of Bill Williams. Forced to watch her husband and two children murdered, and then forced to lie down beside with her husband's corpse before she was repeatedly shot with muskets.

CHILDREN

# ? Travis-- Infant son of Joseph and Sally Travis. Stabbed to death in his cradle.
# Putnam Moore-- Nine year old boy who was the legal owner of Nat Turner. Hacked to death with axes.
# ? Bryant-- Son of Henry Bryant. Stabbed and hacked to death with axes.
# William Reese Jr.-- Son of Piety and William Reese Sr. Stabbed and hacked to death when he came to check on his mother, after hearing the sound of her being murdered
# ? Whitehead-- Elementary-school aged grandchild of Caty Whitehead. Stabbed, beaten, and hacked to death.
# ? Francis-- Three-year-old nephew of Nathaniel Francis. Decapitated with an axe.
# ? Francis-- Elementary school aged nephew of Nathaniel Francis. Stabbed to death.
# ? Williams-- Elementary school aged son of John "Choctaw" Williams and his wife. Decapitated.
# 1-- Child attending classes at an elementary school when the insurgents attacked. Along with nine other classmates, decapitated. The insurgents, leaving the heads inside the school, stacked the headless corpses in the front yard of the school.
# 2-- Child attending classes at an elementary school when the insurgents attacked. Along with nine other classmates, decapitated. The insurgents, leaving the heads inside the school, stacked the headless corpses in the front yard of the school.
# 3--Child attending classes at an elementary school when the insurgents attacked. Along with nine other classmates, decapitated. The insurgents, leaving the heads inside the school, stacked the headless corpses in the front yard of the school.
# 4--Child attending classes at an elementary school when the insurgents attacked. Along with nine other classmates, decapitated. The insurgents, leaving the heads inside the school, stacked the headless corpses in the front yard of the school.
# 5--Child attending classes at an elementary school when the insurgents attacked. Along with nine other classmates, decapitated. The insurgents, leaving the heads inside the school, stacked the headless corpses in the front yard of the school.
# 6--Child attending classes at an elementary school when the insurgents attacked. Along with nine other classmates, decapitated. The insurgents, leaving the heads inside the school, stacked the headless corpses in the front yard of the school.
# 7--Child attending classes at an elementary school when the insurgents attacked. Along with nine other classmates, decapitated. The insurgents, leaving the heads inside the school, stacked the headless corpses in the front yard of the school.
# 8--Child attending classes at an elementary school when the insurgents attacked. Along with nine other classmates, decapitated. The insurgents, leaving the heads inside the school, stacked the headless corpses in the front yard of the school.
# 9--Child attending classes at an elementary school when the insurgents attacked. Along with nine other classmates, decapitated. The insurgents, leaving the heads inside the school, stacked the headless corpses in the front yard of the school.
# 10--Child attending classes at an elementary school when the insurgents attacked. Along with nine other classmates, decapitated. The insurgents, leaving the heads inside the school, stacked the headless corpses in the front yard of the school.
# 11-- Child attending classes at an elementary school when the insurgents attacked. She spared the fate of decapitation that befell her classmates, but was instead repeatedly struck with axes. She died shortly after being discovered by militia men tracking Turner and the insurgents.
# ? Williams-- First child of Jacob Williams. Stabbed and hacked to death.
# ? Williams-- Second child of Jacob Williams. Stabbed and hacked to death.
# ? Williams-- Third child of Jacob Williams. Stabbed and hacked to death.
# ? Worrell-- Child of Caswell Worrell and his wife. Stabbed and hacked to death.
# ? Williams-- First child of Bill Williams. His/her mother was forced to watch as he/she was shot, stabbed, and hacked to death.
# ? Williams-- Second child of Bill Williams. His/her mother was forced to watch as he/she was shot, stabbed, and hacked to death.

NEAR VICTIMS

Giles Reese and family-- White slaveowner. Nat Turner made it explicit that the Reese farm was not to be targeted, because his own family was enslaved there at the time.

Wiley Francis-- White slaveowner. He refused to leave his home when it was approached by Turner and his followers. Francis' slaves, who regarded Francis as a particularly kind master, stood between Turner and Francis' house and informed Turner that they would fight to the death protecting their master and his land. Turner, not wanting to cause any commotion, declared that Francis wasn't worth the effort and left.

Harriet Whitehead-- Teenage daughter of Caty Whitehead. One of Caty Whitehead's slaves, an old black man known by the other slaves as Old Hubbard, hid her in between mattresses and told the rebels that she had escaped.

John Clark Turner and family-- Slaveowner, boyhood friend of Nat Turner. In spite of his orders to "kill all the white people", Turner ordered the insurgents to spare Turner and his family.

Lavinia Francis-- Wife of Nathaniel Francis. Eight months pregnant at the time of the rebellion, she initially hid in a closet before attempting to flee the farm. A slave woman then attacked her with a knife, but slaves loyal to Nathaniel Francis saved her and took her to safe haven.

? Francis-- Mother of Nathaniel Francis. She discovered the carnage at the Travis plantation, then was taken to safe haven by poor white men and loyal slaves.

? Barrow-- Wife of John Barrow. She escaped harm while her husband fought insurgents.

Levi Waller-- White slaveowner and proprietor of a community center. He hid in high weeds when insurgents attacked his home.

? Waller-- Son of Levi Waller. Received early news of the coming of Turner and his insurgents and escaped.

? Waller-- Second son of Levi Waller. Received early news of the coming of Turner and his insurgents and escaped.

William Crocker-- A school teacher who fled with several of his students when word came that the insurgents were headed towards the school.

?-- Elementary school-aged child that hid in a chimney while ten of her classmates were decapitated.

Jacob Williams-- White slaveowner. One of his own slaves was waiting for him with insurgents when he arrived from conducting business. He spotted them on his way up the path and hid in the woods.

Caswell Worrel-- Jacob Williams' overseer. Hid in the fields when insurgents tried to lure him into the open to kill him.

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