Frank Horrace Embree, born 1879 in Burton, Howard County, Missouri to John Embree (1852-1938) and Lucy Jane Lee Embree (1854-Unk) and died at the hands of a murderous lynch mob of townspeople in the same said county and state of his birth on July 22, 1898. Preceding his parents in death; his father, a stone mason, and mother both good citizens and God loving people went on to raise Frank’s ten brothers and one sister to also be hard working good citizens, for which, this God given right was denied Frank.
The alleged crime was the rape and assault of a White girl of 14 years along a country road to which there were no witnesses other than the young girl who at the site and time of the lynching identified Frank Embree as the person who committed the crime, but there is no specific details as to how the sheriff determined Frank Embree to be the person she encounters on that country road but rumors was that the person rode a horse owned by Frank Embree’s uncle whom he was visiting at the time. The Embree family had recently uprooted and settled in Kansas. We can only assume he fit the description of a Black man, and that was sufficient.
The events of that day, July 22, 1898, are well reported in newspapers near and far, and the pictures of that day that made into postcards are well circulated even to this date. The pictures are shocking and disturbing but so is so much of American history and lore. A young man’s life cut short, with his pleads of innocence, falling on death ears, even those of the Governor, until he had no choice but confess to appease the mob, in his cries for mercy, that he not be burned at the stalk.
To his father and mother…. he stood proud and tall though naked and chained (which enraged the murderous mob even more) until he could stand no more; and accepted his unjust fate that brought great pain to you. His brother, Charles Embree (with other Blacks of that community), came and claimed his body even under great threat to himself, to lay his body at rest at the Mount Nebo Baptist Church Cemetery. “Peace! be still”.
Mark 4:35–41: “When evening had come, he said to them, ‘Let us go across to the other side.’ And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him. And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, ‘Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?’ And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, ‘Peace! Be still!’ And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. He said to them, ‘Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?’ And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, ‘Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?’
Frank faced an incredible windstorm, and he knew he would perish, but unlike those on that boat, he had faith that his Father would never harm him so he remained in his arms and the wind ceased and to him there was a great calm.
The alleged crime was the rape and assault of a White girl of 14 years along a country road to which there were no witnesses other than the young girl who at the site and time of the lynching identified Frank Embree as the person who committed the crime, but there is no specific details as to how the sheriff determined Frank Embree to be the person she encounters on that country road but rumors was that the person rode a horse owned by Frank Embree’s uncle whom he was visiting at the time. The Embree family had recently uprooted and settled in Kansas. We can only assume he fit the description of a Black man, and that was sufficient.
The events of that day, July 22, 1898, are well reported in newspapers near and far, and the pictures of that day that made into postcards are well circulated even to this date. The pictures are shocking and disturbing but so is so much of American history and lore. A young man’s life cut short, with his pleads of innocence, falling on death ears, even those of the Governor, until he had no choice but confess to appease the mob, in his cries for mercy, that he not be burned at the stalk.
To his father and mother…. he stood proud and tall though naked and chained (which enraged the murderous mob even more) until he could stand no more; and accepted his unjust fate that brought great pain to you. His brother, Charles Embree (with other Blacks of that community), came and claimed his body even under great threat to himself, to lay his body at rest at the Mount Nebo Baptist Church Cemetery. “Peace! be still”.
Mark 4:35–41: “When evening had come, he said to them, ‘Let us go across to the other side.’ And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him. And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, ‘Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?’ And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, ‘Peace! Be still!’ And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. He said to them, ‘Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?’ And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, ‘Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?’
Frank faced an incredible windstorm, and he knew he would perish, but unlike those on that boat, he had faith that his Father would never harm him so he remained in his arms and the wind ceased and to him there was a great calm.
Frank Horrace Embree, born 1879 in Burton, Howard County, Missouri to John Embree (1852-1938) and Lucy Jane Lee Embree (1854-Unk) and died at the hands of a murderous lynch mob of townspeople in the same said county and state of his birth on July 22, 1898. Preceding his parents in death; his father, a stone mason, and mother both good citizens and God loving people went on to raise Frank’s ten brothers and one sister to also be hard working good citizens, for which, this God given right was denied Frank.
The alleged crime was the rape and assault of a White girl of 14 years along a country road to which there were no witnesses other than the young girl who at the site and time of the lynching identified Frank Embree as the person who committed the crime, but there is no specific details as to how the sheriff determined Frank Embree to be the person she encounters on that country road but rumors was that the person rode a horse owned by Frank Embree’s uncle whom he was visiting at the time. The Embree family had recently uprooted and settled in Kansas. We can only assume he fit the description of a Black man, and that was sufficient.
The events of that day, July 22, 1898, are well reported in newspapers near and far, and the pictures of that day that made into postcards are well circulated even to this date. The pictures are shocking and disturbing but so is so much of American history and lore. A young man’s life cut short, with his pleads of innocence, falling on death ears, even those of the Governor, until he had no choice but confess to appease the mob, in his cries for mercy, that he not be burned at the stalk.
To his father and mother…. he stood proud and tall though naked and chained (which enraged the murderous mob even more) until he could stand no more; and accepted his unjust fate that brought great pain to you. His brother, Charles Embree (with other Blacks of that community), came and claimed his body even under great threat to himself, to lay his body at rest at the Mount Nebo Baptist Church Cemetery. “Peace! be still”.
Mark 4:35–41: “When evening had come, he said to them, ‘Let us go across to the other side.’ And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him. And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, ‘Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?’ And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, ‘Peace! Be still!’ And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. He said to them, ‘Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?’ And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, ‘Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?’
Frank faced an incredible windstorm, and he knew he would perish, but unlike those on that boat, he had faith that his Father would never harm him so he remained in his arms and the wind ceased and to him there was a great calm.
The alleged crime was the rape and assault of a White girl of 14 years along a country road to which there were no witnesses other than the young girl who at the site and time of the lynching identified Frank Embree as the person who committed the crime, but there is no specific details as to how the sheriff determined Frank Embree to be the person she encounters on that country road but rumors was that the person rode a horse owned by Frank Embree’s uncle whom he was visiting at the time. The Embree family had recently uprooted and settled in Kansas. We can only assume he fit the description of a Black man, and that was sufficient.
The events of that day, July 22, 1898, are well reported in newspapers near and far, and the pictures of that day that made into postcards are well circulated even to this date. The pictures are shocking and disturbing but so is so much of American history and lore. A young man’s life cut short, with his pleads of innocence, falling on death ears, even those of the Governor, until he had no choice but confess to appease the mob, in his cries for mercy, that he not be burned at the stalk.
To his father and mother…. he stood proud and tall though naked and chained (which enraged the murderous mob even more) until he could stand no more; and accepted his unjust fate that brought great pain to you. His brother, Charles Embree (with other Blacks of that community), came and claimed his body even under great threat to himself, to lay his body at rest at the Mount Nebo Baptist Church Cemetery. “Peace! be still”.
Mark 4:35–41: “When evening had come, he said to them, ‘Let us go across to the other side.’ And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him. And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, ‘Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?’ And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, ‘Peace! Be still!’ And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. He said to them, ‘Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?’ And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, ‘Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?’
Frank faced an incredible windstorm, and he knew he would perish, but unlike those on that boat, he had faith that his Father would never harm him so he remained in his arms and the wind ceased and to him there was a great calm.
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