Susie Jacobs
Susie Jacobs, a Black person, was one of five people held in the Monroe County jail at Clarendon, Arkansas, on August 10, 1898. According to a news report from Little Rock, a mob took the five from the jail and hanged them near the building, with the crowd estimated at about 300, while the Richmond Dispatch put it at about 30 men who hanged them near a sawmill behind the jail at midnight. The deputy sheriff in charge first refused the mob's demands and then handed over the keys, and a news report says the bodies were left hanging until 9 a.m. the next day.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Susie Jacobs and four other prisoners from the Monroe County jail at Clarendon and hanged them, after the deputy sheriff first refused and then handed over the keys.
Reported by: Little Rock dispatch newspaper report (reporters).