SAMUEL LEWIS

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Officer Rank: Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 11-E: 21
Department: McNairy County, Tennessee, S.O.
End of Watch: August 4, 1867
Cause: SHOT
Age: 40
Years of Service: 2
Description: Sheriff Lewis was mortally wounded when he was called to help break up a disturbance between several militiamen and a freedman. Sheriff Lewis was shot by one of the militiamen and died of his injuries the next day.
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