Frank Stack

Frank Stack was a member of the Jenkins Crossroads Alliance in Union County, North Carolina, and his fellow members described him as honest, peaceable and an affectionate son to his aged mother. He was held in the Burke County jail at Morganton in September 1889 when a mob of about one hundred masked men arrived in the early morning and demanded the keys. The Shenandoah Herald reports that the jailer refused, and the men broke open the cell door with heavy hammers, while the Daily Citizen says the jailer was alone and was gagged and bound. The mob took Stack to a railroad bridge and hanged him, and according to the Monroe Journal he maintained his innocence to the end. A coroner's inquest found that he died at the hands of persons unknown.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. According to the Daily Times, citing a Charlotte dispatch, and the Monroe Journal, a mob of masked men broke into the Morganton jail, took Frank Stack from his cell and hanged him from a railroad bridge.

Reported by: The Daily Times, citing a Charlotte dispatch (reporters); The Monroe Journal, drawing on Charlotte newspaper accounts (reporters); Alexandria Gazette national news notice (reporters); Monroe Enquirer, as quoted by The Western Sentinel (reporters); Jenkins Crossroads Alliance resolutions, published in The Progressive Farmer (advocates); Citizens of Union County, in meeting assembled, per resolutions published in the Charlotte Democrat (advocates).

News reports (13)

• Fort Worth Daily Gazette, September 12, 1889, page 2 Fort Worth Daily Gazette, September 12, 1889
• Alexandria Gazette, September 12, 1889, page 2 Alexandria Gazette, September 12, 1889
• The Daily Times, September 12, 1889, page 1 The Daily Times, September 12, 1889
• The Daily Citizen, September 12, 1889, page 1 The Daily Citizen, September 12, 1889
• The Charlotte Democrat, September 13, 1889, page 3 The Charlotte Democrat, September 13, 1889
• Oxford Eagle, September 19, 1889, page 1 Oxford Eagle, September 19, 1889
• The Russellville Democrat, September 19, 1889, page 1 The Russellville Democrat, September 19, 1889
• The Western Sentinel, September 19, 1889, page 2 The Western Sentinel, September 19, 1889
• Shenandoah Herald, September 20, 1889, page 1 Shenandoah Herald, September 20, 1889
• The Charlotte Democrat, September 20, 1889, page 2 The Charlotte Democrat, September 20, 1889
• The Grenada Sentinel, September 21, 1889, page 2 The Grenada Sentinel, September 21, 1889
• The Progressive Farmer, October 1, 1889, page 4 The Progressive Farmer, October 1, 1889
• The Monroe Journal, June 9, 1914, page 5 The Monroe Journal, June 9, 1914