A Singletree: The Lynching of Charles Hurd

November 1895 in Morgan County, Tennessee, 1895, a disagreement between a boss, James Kelley, and a worker would ultimately lead to the murder of both. After a 10 day man hunt in the mountains, the accused, Charles Hurd, would be abducted from the jail and killed at the hands of a lynch mob in Wartburg.

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This doesn’t surprise me coming from Morgan Co.

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She snitched on him? 🤔

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Imagine

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smdh

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That's A Damn Shame.

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She had to save herself.

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thats post slavery syndrome and it aint dead yet . we have been conditioned by the system to be disunity as soon as they took us off the ship

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He murdered a guy, he definitely should have went to court, but Herd wasn't a innocent man. He'd attempted murder, given a second chance and then murdered.