Died in jail or a lockup

Jody Bell

20 years old · died March 20, 1901 · Hinds County, Mississippi

Jody Bell was a twenty-year-old Black person. On the night of March 20, 1901, a mob took them from the jail in Terry, Mississippi, where they were being held. The mob carried them to a bridge about a mile north of the city and hanged them. The newspaper account of the death is the only record of these events.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Jody Bell from the jail in Terry, Mississippi, and hanged him from a bridge about a mile north of the city.

Reported by: news reports.

Source

Ottumwa Semi-Weekly Courier, March 21, 1901, page 1 Ottumwa Semi-Weekly Courier, March 21, 1901

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