Lynchings in the Catawba Valley of North Carolina

Date: About 1868 to 1941
Surname/tag: North_Carolina

Contents 1 Lynchings in the Catawba Valley 2 Extralegal incidents 3 Legal incidents 4 Sources

Lynchings in the Catawba Valley

This is a list of the known victims of racial terror lynchings in the Catawba River Valley of North Carolina between 1868 and 1941.

Extralegal incidents

• Newton Wilfong (Newton) - 1868-70 (WikiTree)
• Jule Davidson (Mooresville) - 28 DEC 1879 (ARR)
• Elijah Church (Newton) - 6 OCT 1881 (ARR)
• Chas Campbell (Statesville) - 15 OCT 1883 (ARR)
• John Carson aka Van Canady (Shelby) - 2 DEC 1888 (ARR)
• David Boone and Franklin Stack (Morganton) – 11 SEP 1889 (EJI, ARR)
• Joseph Kiser and Thomas Johnson (Concord) - 29 MAY 1898 (EJI, ARR)
• Harrison and James Gillespie (Salisbury) – 11 JUN 1902 (EJI, ARR)
• Nease and John Gillespie, Jack Dillingham (Salisbury) – 1906 (EJI, ARR): photo
• Joe McNeely (Charlotte) – 1913 (EJI, ARR)
• Willie McDaniel (Charlotte) - 29 JUN 1929 (EJI, ARR)
• Robert Melker (Cherryville) – 20 APR 1941 (EJI, ARR)

Legal incidents

• Caroline Shipp (Dallas) - 22 JAN 1892 (last woman legally hanged in NC)
• Broadus Miller (Morganton) - 3 JUL 1927 (legally shot by a civilian posse)

Sources

Names followed by (EJI) are documented by the Equal Justice Initiative, and names followed by (ARR) are documented by A Red Record - an independently verified version of Vann R. Newkirk's list (2008), which was a secondary source for the tally compiled by Monroe Work (born to formerly enslaved parents in Iredell County in 1866) and published by the Tuskegee Institute (starting in 1912). All others are documented on Wikipedia and/or WikiTree as indicated by embedded links to their respective pages.