Bob Clarke
Bob Clarke, a Black man, was being held in the jail at Bristol, Tennessee, on June 13, 1891, when a crowd gathered outside. According to The Morning Call, prominent citizens urged the crowd to disperse and leave the matter to the law, but they were shouted down. Newspaper accounts say the crowd broke the jail door open with an ax, dragged him out and took him to Lindsey's grove, about a mile from town, where he was hanged. The accounts differ on details: one says from a tree limb, while a later report places the hanging on Saturday, June 20, with him hung in chains from a chestnut tree.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Newspaper accounts say a mob broke open the Bristol, Tennessee jail, seized Bob Clarke and hanged him from a tree.
Reported by: Morning Call newspaper (reporters); other newspaper accounts of the Bristol, Tennessee lynching (reporters).