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Enas Charles

died January 1915 · Jasper County Jail, Jasper County, Georgia

Enas Charles was one of two married daughters of a man named Barber. In January 1915 a mob took her from the Jasper County jail at Monticello, Georgia, and lynched her, according to a short weekly news roundup published in The Madison Journal on January 30, 1915. The jail held her at the time, and the account describes the killing in these terms, without giving further details of how it happened or who responded.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A short weekly news roundup reports that a mob took her from the Jasper County jail at Monticello, Georgia, and lynched her.

Reported by: a short weekly news roundup.

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