For miscegenation.
Arthur Jordan ran off
with and married his
white employer's
daughter. The employer
had him arrested in
Washington D.C. and
returned to Fauquier
County to stand trial on
charges of bigamy (Jordan
allegedly already had a
black wife). A
James Jordan
Sussex County
Virginia
March 20
1925
For rape
William Lavender
Roanoke County
Virginia
February 12
1892
For attempted rape
Dan Long
Wythe County
Virginia
December 7
1900
For rape
Henry Mason
Campbell County
Virginia
November 30
1885
For murder
Joseph McCoy
Alexandria County
Virginia
April 23
1897
For rape. McCoy who was
jailed for allegedly
raping his employer's
daughters was dragged
from his cell and lynched
from a lamppost at the
intersection of two major
downtown streets.
(Lynching in the New
South pg. 155)
Charles Miller
Alleghany County
Virginia
October 17
1891
For assault and riot. A
policeman in Clifton
Forge Virginia tried to
arrest a group of miners
(Bob Burton Charles
Miller John and William
Scott) for boisterous
intimidating behavior.
They resisted arrest and
made their way out of
town and back to the mi