One of Six Centralia Massacre Victims. He was accused of murder, which some accounts say was self-defense; beaten badly, arrested and put in jail; removed by a mob and lynched without a trial. This happened on the first anniversary of World War I; Everest was wearing his army uniform. This conflict between the World War I Veterans belonging to an American Legion and logging camp workers, who were members of the an organized workers group, Industrial Workers of the World or Wobblies, resulted in a total of six deaths, additional wounded, multiple prison terms, and an ongoing and especially bitter dispute over the motivations and events that precipitated the massacre. Everest, a lumberjack, was a Wobblie or IWW member. Other factors about the incident: Owners of the logging camp feared for a strike by organized workers, many of the loggers were also World War I veterans, the perpetrators, who hung him, were never identified, yet several Wobblies were taken to trial for killing an American Legion leader during the riot, and six of them spent fifteen years in prison. Besides, Everett, four American Legion men were killed including the nephew of the owner of the logging business, and a deputy sheriff. Since no undertaker would take his body, a group of Wobblies dug his grave in what was a pauper's cemetery and buried him. Today, his grave site is listed on the National Register of Historical Places; the application for the National Register gives a detailed documentation of this incident. Since the application, a military marker has been placed on his grave site.
Grave site is in the back of the cemetery, near the hedge on the south eastern side.
Grave site is in the back of the cemetery, near the hedge on the south eastern side.
One of Six Centralia Massacre Victims. He was accused of murder, which some accounts say was self-defense; beaten badly, arrested and put in jail; removed by a mob and lynched without a trial. This happened on the first anniversary of World War I; Everest was wearing his army uniform. This conflict between the World War I Veterans belonging to an American Legion and logging camp workers, who were members of the an organized workers group, Industrial Workers of the World or Wobblies, resulted in a total of six deaths, additional wounded, multiple prison terms, and an ongoing and especially bitter dispute over the motivations and events that precipitated the massacre. Everest, a lumberjack, was a Wobblie or IWW member. Other factors about the incident: Owners of the logging camp feared for a strike by organized workers, many of the loggers were also World War I veterans, the perpetrators, who hung him, were never identified, yet several Wobblies were taken to trial for killing an American Legion leader during the riot, and six of them spent fifteen years in prison. Besides, Everett, four American Legion men were killed including the nephew of the owner of the logging business, and a deputy sheriff. Since no undertaker would take his body, a group of Wobblies dug his grave in what was a pauper's cemetery and buried him. Today, his grave site is listed on the National Register of Historical Places; the application for the National Register gives a detailed documentation of this incident. Since the application, a military marker has been placed on his grave site.
Grave site is in the back of the cemetery, near the hedge on the south eastern side.
Grave site is in the back of the cemetery, near the hedge on the south eastern side.
Bio by: Linda Davis
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U.S. ARMY
WORLD WAR I
361st INF
91st DIV
COMPANY 1
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