Edward Kirkland
Ed Kirkland was being taken by Sheriff Bennett on a Seaboard train to Columbia for safekeeping after a shooting in Appleton, South Carolina. A 1921 newspaper report from Allendale says a mob of several hundred boarded the train at Fairfax on October 25, 1921, searched the coaches, seized him, shot him, and carried him to Appleton, where his body was burned. The report says the sheriff used a roundabout route to hide him. A later account, from a damages suit brought by his administratrix, Mrs. Lillian B. Kirkland, says his charred body was found in the burned ruins of a lodge building on October 24, 1921, and the State Supreme Court upheld a $2,000 award against Allendale County for his lynching.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper account from an Allendale dateline says a mob of several hundred seized Ed Kirkland from Sheriff Bennett on a train, shot him and carried him to Appleton, where his body was burned; a damages suit by his administratrix, Mrs. Lillian B. Kirkland, was affirmed by the State Supreme Court against the county for his lynching.
Reported by: Allendale newspaper report (reporters); Mrs. Lillian B. Kirkland, administratrix, through the damages suit (family or their lawyers); Circuit court and State Supreme Court (court).
Lawsuit: His administratrix, Lillian B. Kirkland, sued Allendale County, and the State Supreme Court affirmed a $2,000 directed verdict against the county for his lynching.