Name not reported
According to a travel writer's account of a 1921 visit, relaying a story told to the touring party, he was a Black man who owned a good fruit grove and was a man of some means. After the November 1920 presidential election, a mob took him from a Florida jail, carried him to a secluded grove, hanged him from an oak and shot him. His family fled after the killing and went to Tampa, and the grove was left unharmed while a white agent sold it and sent the money to them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A travel writer relays a story told to the touring party that a mob seized a Black man from a Florida jail after the November 1920 election, hanged him from an oak and shot him.
Reported by: a travel writer relaying a story told to the touring party.