Rodins Heamore
Rodins Heamore was one of five Black men held in the Worth County jail at Sylvester, Georgia, in January 1916. According to a press dispatch from Albany, Georgia, published in The Brunswick News, a mob of forty or fifty men took the five men from the jail during the night, drove them north, and hanged them from a single tree limb beside a road in Lee County. The dispatch says the jailer and sheriff were overpowered and handed over the cell keys. The dispatch reports that the bodies were found the next morning and bore bullet holes as well as signs of hanging.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. An Albany, Georgia press dispatch reported that a mob of forty or fifty men took Rodins Heamore and four others from the Worth County jail, hanged them from a tree limb in Lee County, and that the jailer and sheriff were overpowered and handed over the cell keys.
Reported by: Albany, Ga. press dispatch (reporters).