Executed
Sid Dunlap
Sid Dunlap, a Black man, was held in the county jail at Somerville before he was hanged at the state prison in Nashville at sunrise on September 4, 1912. The Alexandria Gazette reported that mobs gathered four times at the Somerville jail to take him and lynch him, and each time the sheriff protected him. The execution was carried out under the state's authority, and no objection to it is recorded in the account.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: the newspaper report of the hanging.