 All but one were men; the victims included 19-year-old Mary Turner, who had denounced the lynching of her husband, and her eight-month-old fetus, cut from her body and also murdered at the site, on the west bank of the Little River.A second railroad (Valdosta/Morven & Western RR) was built through Morven in the 1920s.In 1923 the town raised an $8,000 bond to provide a water system.