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This historic plaque also honors the memory of two other lynching victims: his brother Henry Grizzard, and Samuel Smith of Nolensville, Tennessee, who was killed in relation to another incident. [10] The Grizzard brothers and Smith were three of the six blacks documented as lynched in Davidson County in the post-Reconstruction period. [11]
After the Civil War, of which Tennessee was a Confederate state, Tennessee enacted Jim Crow laws and held a separate, but equal mentality. [5] [6] The McIlherron family aggravated the local white community, as they had a reputation for not backing down to insults from whites. The family had become a bit more wealthy than their white neighbors.
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Thanks to the new book, "The Prophet of Oak Ridge Revealed," written by John’s great-grandson, Dennis Aslinger of Oak Ridge, readers now know that Hendrix “killed a man in 1887, spent time in ...
According to the Memphis Evening Appeal, Paris sheriff D. T. Caldwell was at Joseph Upchurch's house (in the northwest part of Henry County, Tennessee) on June 17, 1927, after being told by his relatives that he had been acting "queerly". The paper said "Upchurch is said to have been mentally unbalanced and threatened other negroes of the ...
Cane Creek, Tennessee W. Martin Conder LDS Church Mob assassination 20 August 10, 1884 Cane Creek, Tennessee John Riley Hutson LDS Church Mob assassination 27 May 1898 Sanderson, Florida: George P. Canova LDS Church Shot and killed May 4, 1912 Diaz, Galeana, Chihuahua, Mexico James D. Harvey LDS Church Shot and killed 49 August 27, 1912
People's Grocery, Memphis Tennessee, c. 1890. The People's Grocery lynchings of 1892 occurred on March 9, 1892, in Memphis, Tennessee, when black grocery owner Thomas Moss and two of his workers, Will Stewart and Calvin McDowell, were lynched by a white mob while in police custody. The lynchings occurred in the aftermath of a fight between ...
The Hermitage is a National Historic Landmark and museum located in Davidson County, Tennessee, United States, 10 miles (16 km) east of downtown Nashville in the neighborhood of Hermitage. The 1,000-acre (400 ha)+ site was owned by President Andrew Jackson , the seventh president of the United States , from 1804 until his death there in 1845.