Previous Lynching Victim ID: VA1932091501 Victim Name: Shedrick Thompson Race: Black Sex: Male Age: 39 Job: Farmhand Method of Death: Hanged Accusation: Attack on a white man and white woman Date: 1932-09-15 City: Linden Mob Composition: Unknown Summary: Shedrick Thompson, also referred to as...
By JIM HALL Charlotte Harris was lynched near Harrisonburg, Va., in 1878. A news story described how a group of disguised men stormed the place where she was confined, took her from a guard, and carried her away. The men dragged Harris about 400 yards to the Gilmore place. They bent a blackjack...
Previous LynchingNext Lynching Victim ID: VA1892031802 Victim Name: Joseph Dye Race: White Sex: Male Age: Unknown Job: Farmer Method of Death: Hanged and riddled with bullets Accusation: Murder of a white widow woman and her three children and burning their bodies, and then robbed the house....
Previous LynchingNext Lynching Victim ID: VA1892031801 Victim Name: Lee Heflin Race: White Sex: Male Age: 29 Job: Farmer Method of Death: Hanged and riddled with bullets Accusation: Murder of a white widow woman and her three children and burning their bodies, and then robbed the house....
Previous LynchingNext Lynching Victim ID: VA1880011901 Victim Name: Arthur Jordan Race: Black Sex: Male Age: 23 Job: Farmer Method of Death: Hanged - strangulation Accusation: Eloping with a white girl, half-witted Date: 1880-01-19 City: Warrenton Mob Composition: 40 to 50 masked men Summary:...