On November 5, 1918, George Taylor, a Black man, was brutally lynched by a mob of 300 white people near Rolesville. A week prior, a white woman reported being assaulted, and officers arrested Mr. Taylor on the morning of November 5 despite lacking any evidence tying him to the alleged…
On July 8, 1860, the temperature in Dallas reached 115 degrees. A combustible fire beginning outside of W.W. Peak and Brothers drugstore destroyed most of downtown. At the time, national tensions ran high over the right to enslave human beings. Many were driven by suspicion of Northern abolitionists and a…
William Keemer (born ca. 1852) of Carthage was a Black carpenter with ties to the nearby free Black community of Beech Settlement (begun ca. 1828). In 1875, white Hancock County farmer William Vaughn accused Keemer of raping his wife. Keemer was arrested and jailed at Greenfield. He maintained his innocence,…
Monett has always been known as a nice, peaceful railroad town. However, in 1894, that was disrupted. There were five lynchings in twelve years near the turn of the century in this area, however, only one of these was in Monett. On June 28, 1894 on what seemed to be…
From a Sycamore near this spot, L.V. Grime and C.B. Hawley were lynched on Aug. 24, 1882 for the hold up – murder of Andrew Hall, Wells Fargo Packer, and Dr. S.T. Vail. The culprits had a fair hearing before JP Allen on Wednesday eve, and at 2 AM Thursday…
In respectful memory of the thousands across America, denied justice by lynching; victims of hatred, prejudice, and ignorance. Between 1880-1946, ~570 Georgians were lynched….