Simon Ford
Simon Ford, a Black man, was held in the jail at Hohenwald, Tennessee, in June 1905. According to a telegram to the Nashville Banner, about fifty men took him from the jail on the afternoon of June 19, drove him about ten miles to the place of his arrest, and shot him to death. Other accounts give the date as June 20 and place the killing in Nashville, and one reports that about five hundred shots were fired into his body after he was identified. The accounts differ on the date and place, but all describe a mob taking him from the jail and killing him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A telegram to the Nashville Banner says about fifty men took Simon Ford from the Hohenwald jail and shot him; the article does not say how jail officers responded.
Reported by: Nashville Banner telegram from Hohenwald, Tenn. (reporters).