Jeff Crawford
Jeff Crawford, a Black man, was held in the Yorkville jail in Yorkville, South Carolina, in June 1894. The Manning Times reported that early on June 2, a crowd came to the jail, woke the sheriff, and that the sheriff refused to open it. The paper said the crowd broke in, took Crawford from the dungeon, hanged him and fired bullets through his body. The Laurens Advertiser reported that he was taken from the jail in the early hours and hanged by a lynch mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Laurens Advertiser reports a lynch mob took Jeff Crawford from the Yorkville jail and hanged him, and The Register reports the sheriff refused to open the jail as the crowd broke in.
Reported by: The Laurens Advertiser (reporters); The Register (reporters).