Burrell Jones
On October 13, 1892, according to newspaper dispatches published two days later, a mob overpowered the sheriff at the Monroe County jail in Monroeville, Alabama, and took four Black men from the building. The dispatches name Jim Paoker, Mose Johnson, described as Paoker's brother, and Burrell Jones, though the spellings vary between accounts, and the fourth man is not named. The papers report that the men were hanged, shot and their bodies burned. The accounts are secondhand, and the reasons the papers give for the killings are not verified.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. According to newspaper dispatches, a mob overpowered the sheriff, took four Black men from the Monroe County jail at Monroeville, Alabama, hanged and shot them, and burned their bodies.
Reported by: special dispatch from Monroeville (reporters); special dispatch from Birmingham, Alabama, published in The Roanoke Times (reporters); The Free Press (1892 newspaper report) (reporters).