Jennie Jordan
Jennie Jordan, a Black woman from the Pinehurst area, was held at the Cordele jail in Georgia when a crowd of local men followed her there. According to an Atlanta Georgian report, the sheriff and his few deputies tried to resist but were outnumbered, and the mob took her from the jail area to Pinehurst. The report says she was hanged from a tree and then shot, and that her body was left hanging. Friends from across the community came to her funeral in Pinehurst, where she was remembered as one of the best-loved women in the neighborhood, and her husband was overcome with grief and shock.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Atlanta Georgian reported that a mob took her from the Cordele jail, hanged her from a tree and then shot her.
Reported by: Atlanta Georgian (reporters).