Joe Boxley
Joe Boxley, a Black man, was held in the jail in Alamo, Tennessee, in Crockett County. In early June 1929, a mob took him from that jail and hanged him about four miles from town. According to the Richmond Planet, the mob had first stormed a jail in Trenton, in an adjoining county, and then traced him to Alamo, where they found the jail keys under a divan in the home of Sheriff Carl Emison, who had placed them there, and took custody of him. The county coroner later removed the body from the tree and gave it to his relatives.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Joe Boxley from the Alamo, Tennessee jail after finding the jail keys under a divan in Sheriff Carl Emison's home, where the sheriff had placed them.
Reported by: Crockett County Sheriff Carl Emison (the agency that held him); the county coroner.