Harrel
Harrel, a man identified in the records as Black, was held in the jail at Jackson, Mississippi, in December 1880. According to the Memphis Daily Appeal, a mob came to the jail, and people inside said they were forced to pass the keys through a window because they feared for their safety. The mob unlocked his cell, took him about half a mile out on the Clifton road, and hanged him from a limb. The coroner took his body down the following Sunday morning and it was buried; the account offers no further details about his life or family.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took him from the Jackson, Mississippi jail and hanged him from a limb, with the jailers passing the keys through a window out of fear for their safety.
Reported by: people held at the Jackson, Mississippi jail (witnesses).