Son of Charles Kelsey & Eliza Fleet; murdered at Huntington, Suffolk County, L. I. in one of the most famous lynchings in Suffolk County history; Kelsey was tarred & feathered; murdered & his body cut in half & dumped into Huntington Harbor; nearly a year later, the lower half floated up in Oyster Bay Harbor, Queens {now Nassau} County, L. I.; this half was buried at the Old Huntington or Burying Ground Hill Cemetery; none of the lynch mob were ever brought to justice; Kelsey was murdered, supposedly, for "courting" a woman "above his station in life"; the lady in question later married one of the lynch mob; nearly all the mob were related to Kelsey; due to social importance in the Huntington community of the families of the mob leaders, no one was ever punished for this crime; known as the "Kelsey Outrage" or "Tar Town Murder"; the "Kelsey Outrage" gave Huntington the nickname "Tar Town." which it carried well into the 20th century
Son of Charles Kelsey & Eliza Fleet; murdered at Huntington, Suffolk County, L. I. in one of the most famous lynchings in Suffolk County history; Kelsey was tarred & feathered; murdered & his body cut in half & dumped into Huntington Harbor; nearly a year later, the lower half floated up in Oyster Bay Harbor, Queens {now Nassau} County, L. I.; this half was buried at the Old Huntington or Burying Ground Hill Cemetery; none of the lynch mob were ever brought to justice; Kelsey was murdered, supposedly, for "courting" a woman "above his station in life"; the lady in question later married one of the lynch mob; nearly all the mob were related to Kelsey; due to social importance in the Huntington community of the families of the mob leaders, no one was ever punished for this crime; known as the "Kelsey Outrage" or "Tar Town Murder"; the "Kelsey Outrage" gave Huntington the nickname "Tar Town." which it carried well into the 20th century
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