Theo Calloway
Theodore Galloway was held in the Lowndes County jail at Hayneville, Alabama, in March 1888, and his parents had come to town for his preliminary hearing. On the night of March 29, 1888, about 200 armed, masked men came to the jail, and one newspaper account says the jailer was forced to surrender the keys before they took him from his cell. The men hanged him from a tree in front of the courthouse and shot his body many times, and his parents later took his body back to Sandy Ridge for burial. The Equal Justice Initiative says no one was held accountable for his killing, and descendants of Theodore Galloway attended the installation of a historical marker at the courthouse in 2020.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A wire dispatch reports that about 200 men took him from the Haynesville jail, hanged him from a tree in front of the courthouse and shot his body many times; it does not say whether jail officers resisted.
Reported by: Associated Press dispatch (reporters).
Sources (7)
- San Antonio Daily Light, March 31, 1888, page 1
- Waterbury Evening Democrat, March 31, 1888, page 1
- Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, April 3, 1888, page 2
- The Austin Weekly Statesman, April 5, 1888, page 3
- The National Tribune, April 5, 1888, page 8
- Macon Beacon, April 7, 1888, page 1
- Lowndes County, Alabama, Memorializes Victim of Racial Terror Lynching at Courthouse