During the Lynching Era, Madison County, Alabama documented ten victims of this horrific crime.
The actual numbers are undoubtedly much higher.
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Elijah Clark
July 23, 1900. The courthouse was raided and Elijah Clark was pulled from a cell and lynched.
Horace Maples
September 7, 1904. Maples was pulled from the jail and hanged at the courthouse square.
Wesley Brown
October 9, 1883. Brown was accused of murder and lynched days before his innocence was proven.
Mollie Smith, Amanda Franks, and James Nance.
Smith and Franks were lynched on May 11, 1897. James Nance was lynched two days later. These murders occurred on a plantation in what is now Monrovia, Alabama.
Herman Deeley
January 18, 1915. Herman Deeley was lynched near Ditto Landing, when it was known as the town of Taylorsville.
Ben Evans and Ephraim Hall
April 17, 1878. Evans and Hall were violently lynched after a short legal process full of contradictory statements.
Robert Mosely
March 21, 1890. Mosely was pursued by a mob of 500 men and murdered.