Granville Harrell
Granville Harrell, a Black man who worked for David Simmons, was held at the Raymond jail in December 1880. The Weekly Clarion reported that Sheriff Morrison had moved him there from Jackson on a Thursday night to guard against a feared lynching. The Comet reported that on Saturday night, December 18, about one hundred men took him from the jail and hanged him from a tree near Snake Creek, outside the town limits, and the Pascagoula Democrat-Star reported that the group overpowered the jailer. The inquest jury's verdict recorded that a mob hanged him, but the papers did not learn the names of those involved.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Granville Harrell from the Raymond county jail and hanged him from a tree near Snake Creek, according to the inquest jury's verdict as reported by the Comet and the Weekly Clarion.
Reported by: jury of inquest; The Comet (reporters); The Weekly Clarion (reporters).