For murder. Accused of
murder Clark fought a gun
battle with a mob of law
officers and citizens.
The mob set fire to
Clarks home and he was
shot as he fled.
(Lynching in the New
South pg. 34)
Walter Clayton
Bay Minett
Alabama
April 6
1908
Walter Cole
Morgan County
Tennessee
January 21
1908
Walter Cotton
Greenville County
Virginia
March 24
1900
For murder. Described
as a black desperado
Cotton was lynched in
retaliation for the
murders of several
whites. Blacks who
witnessed the lynching
demanded that Cotton's
white sidekick Brandt
O'Grady also be lynched
and led the mob that
dragged him from