Ella Charles
Eula Charles, also recorded as Ella or Euia Charles, was a married daughter of Daniel Barber and was Black. She was one of four people held in the Monticello jail in Georgia in January 1915. The Associated Press reported that about two hundred masked men took her and three others from the jail on the night of January 14, 1915, hanged her from a pine tree and then shot her body. The Birmingham Age-Herald reported that the mob overpowered the sheriff and took the cell keys from him, and that her father and a brother were taken with her.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. According to the Associated Press, a mob of about two hundred masked men took her from the Monticello jail, hanged her and shot her, and a telephone message received in Atlanta gave the same account of a mob removing the women from the Jasper County jail.
Reported by: Birmingham Age-Herald (reporters); Associated Press (reporters); telephone message received in Atlanta.