David Gregory
David Gregory, a Black man, was shot by officers at a church in Voth, Hardin County, Texas, on December 7, 1933. One account names Deputy Sheriff Ralph Chance as the officer who fired, while another says a posse shot him. Officers then took him by automobile toward a hospital in Beaumont, and according to the report he died without regaining consciousness as the car sped toward Vidor. The Bismarck Tribune reported that a mob later took his body from Sheriff Miles Jordan at Silsbee and dragged it through part of the town.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A posse shot him at a church in Voth, and officers said the shooting was justified; a mob then took him from Sheriff Miles Jordan at Silsbee and dragged his body through Kountze.
Reported by: Hardin County sheriff's office and officers (the agency that held him); news reports of the shooting and mob.