Ed Kirkland
Ed Kirkland, a Black man, was being taken by Sheriff Bennett on a Seaboard train toward Columbia when, according to a newspaper report datelined Allendale, a mob of several hundred boarded the train at Fairfax on October 25, 1921. The report says the mob searched the coaches, seized him, shot him and carried his body to Appleton, where it was burned. The account says the sheriff took a roundabout route to keep him from the crowd.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper report from an Allendale dateline says a mob of several hundred seized Ed Kirkland from the train carrying him under Sheriff Bennett to Columbia, shot him and burned his body in Appleton.
Reported by: newspaper account from an Allendale dateline (reporters).