Coatesville lynching victim Zachariah Walker buried after 114 years

Coatesville lynching victim Zachariah Walker buried after 114 years

EAST FALLOWFIELD—Healing and closure took place 114 years after the remains of Zachariah Walker–who was brutally lynched and burnt to death in Chester County–were buried. More than 4,000 men, women and children had witnessed the Sunday, August 13, 1911 lynching of Walker who was killed without a trial of his peers, after he was accused of murder, which has left a black eye on Coatesville for more than a century. The burial of soil and his ashes …