↑ Associated Press, 1911: "At Okemah, Oklahoma, Laura Nelson, a colored woman accused of murdering a deputy sheriff who had discovered stolen goods at her house, was lynched together with her son, a boy about fifteen. The woman and her son were taken from the jail, dragged about six miles to the Canadian River and hanged from a bridge. The woman was raped by members of the mob before she was hanged."[7]
↑ Jones-Sneed (2011) writes that these are the only known extant photographs of a black female lynching victim.[12]
↑ According to The Okemah Ledger, the Nelsons were "a portion of the Lincoln County Nelsons that were terrors in their colony, and have lived north of Paden but a short time".[27]
↑ The Okemah Ledger called him L. W. Nelson,[27][9] แต่ไม่มีแหล่งยืนยันว่า เหตุใดจึงพากันเรียกขานเขาว่า ลอว์เรนซ์[28]เอกสารชั้นต้นบางฉบับยังเรียก ลอรา ว่า แมรี (Mary)[29]ส่วนออสติน เอกสาร ดิโอเคมาห์เลดเจอร์ (The Okemah Ledger) เรียก ออสการ์ (Oscar)[27]
