JOHN MACON POAG
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Officer Rank: Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 35-W: 29
Department: Tate County, Mississippi, S.O.
End of Watch: April 12, 1905
Cause: SHOT
Age: 46
Years of Service: Unk
Description: Sheriff Poag was shot while protecting a prisoner from a group of men who were trying to remove the prisoner from the jail to lynch him. Sheriff Poag returned fire, wounding one of the men. Sheriff Poag was shot twice and died several hours later.
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