Nelson
Nelson was held in the jail in Helena, Arkansas, in January 1846, according to a Helena Journal account reprinted in the Alexandria Gazette. The paper reported that an armed group broke into the jail, took him from his cell with a rope around his neck, and forced him to run beside their horses to the scene of earlier killings near Hickory Ridge. Accounts differ on the date: one reprint places his death on January 25 and another on February 8, when the crowd was said to have held a mock trial and hanged him on a gate post.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Helena Journal reported that a mob broke into the Helena, Arkansas jail, took Nelson from his cell and hanged him from a gate post.
Reported by: Helena Journal (as reprinted in the Alexandria Gazette, The Columbian Fountain and The Evansville Journal) (reporters).