Anthony Bewley (May 22, 1804 – September 13, 1860) was an abolitionist pastor who was lynched in Fort Worth, Texas for his anti-slavery views.
[1] Bewley was born in Tennessee and became a minister for the Methodist Episcopal Church as a young man.
After serving in Virginia and marrying his wife Jane Winton, the Bewleys moved to Missouri.
[3] That year, as pro-slavery Texans sought out those who might harbor abolitionist sympathies, newspapers published an alleged letter to Bewley where another minister encouraged him to promote abolitionism.
[4] Bewley departed under cover of darkness the same day that a mob lynched Unionist William Crawford.