John Anderson
John Anderson, a Black man, was held in the jail at LaFayette, Alabama, in October 1898. According to The Atlanta Constitution, a mob of men from Fredonia and West Point, Georgia, took him from the jail early on the morning of October 23 while the sheriff was absent, hanged him from an oak tree about a mile from town and fired into his body. The Pine Bluff Daily Graphic and The Hartford Herald gave differing accounts of the place of death, one describing a pole rather than a tree. The Morning News linked the killing to a dispute over money on a farm where Anderson had been a tenant.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob from Fredonia and West Point, Georgia, took John Anderson from the Lafayette, Alabama jail, hanged him and fired into his body, according to The Atlanta Constitution and the Pine Bluff Daily Graphic.
Reported by: The Atlanta Constitution (reporters); Pine Bluff Daily Graphic (reporters).