Jed Crawford

Jed Crawford, a Black man, was being held in the Yorkville county jail in York, South Carolina, in the early morning of June 2, 1894, when a crowd came to the building. According to a June 13, 1894 report in The Lexington Dispatch, the crowd woke the sheriff, who had heard talk of a lynching and refused to open the jail. The mob broke in, found him in the dungeon, and took him to the railroad depot, where they hanged and shot him.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

Source

• The Lexington Dispatch, June 13, 1894, page 4 The Lexington Dispatch, June 13, 1894