Charles Edwards
Charley Edwards was held at the Clarksville jail until his execution, and before it a Black minister, the Rev. Thomas Scott, served as his spiritual adviser. The Anderson Intelligencer reports that Edwards professed his faith and was baptized in a pond built near the jail, with Sheriff Gastley and armed guards present, while a hymn was sung and a prayer offered. The Atlanta Constitution reports that he told the crowd he loved everybody, held no malice, and asked that no one grieve after him. He was hanged at Clarksville, Georgia, on Friday, October 14, 1887, before a crowd the Constitution estimated at more than five thousand, and his friends took his body to Mount Airy for burial.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: newspaper dispatch from Clarksville, Ga. (reporters).