Rennie Simmons
A young Black man named Simmons, reported to have been 18, was held in the Anadarko county jail in Oklahoma. Early on June 13, 1913, a mob estimated at about a thousand people took him from custody and hanged him from a tree near the railroad bridge. Accounts say his body was then shot and burned, and that a large crowd watched. Accounts differ on where he was held as the mob gathered: one says the sheriff moved him to an old government prison, and another says he was moved to a different building when word of the mob spread.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about a thousand people took him from the Anadarko jail, hanged him from a tree, and then shot and burned his body, according to a 1913 newspaper report.
Reported by: 1913 newspaper report, Anadarko, Oklahoma (reporters).