Source: Times Union, Jacksonville, Florida 6 July 1915

Silar Turner died 4 July 1915 at Round Oak, Jones county, Georgia (near Macon, Ga.)
No survivors: mentioned
Silas was killed when he tried to collect a debt from W. H. King, negro; he is said to have been shot by Thomas Brooks, another negro who escaped; his death set off mob violence by enraged Georgians and two other negroes, not involved in the killing have been lynched.