Learning Their Names.
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From the Red Record website:

"This is a (likely incomplete) list of the names of persons who were killed in lynchings that took place in North Carolina between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War II.

This list is a work in progress and will be updated as more information comes to light. Those persons identified as “Unidentified” were of course not unknown–they were fathers and sons, wives, and daughters, they had friends and enemies, communities and stories.

Why are we publishing these names? Publishing these names takes a small step toward recognizing their personhood in ways the public record does not.

Their lynching was an act of attempted erasure, using them as a tool of subjugation even as they were tortured and murdered. Naming them recalls their lives before that moment. Their names also offer pathways to researchers interested in finding out more about them.

When possible, we are also publishing the names of members of mobs, who were inappropriately protected by law enforcement and the press."

NOTE: " A Red Record documents lynchings in the American South, starting with North Carolina. The title, A Red Record, is drawn from Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s work by the same name and is intended, in a small way, to recognize Wells-Barnett’s remarkable courage and commitment to justice.

Our research also corroborates Wells-Barnett’s core argument: that lynching was much more than just a response to crime. It was part of a narrative of white supremacy that sought to write out Black success, Black families, and Black personhood.
Started in February of 2015..."
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178 Lynchings and Possible Lynchings in North Carolina

Name Date County

Unidentified 1865-02-01 Robeson

Unidentified 1865-02-01 Robeson

Unidentified 1865-02-01 Robeson

Charles Winters 1865-07-20 Duplin

John Hirst 1865-07-20 Duplin

John Middleton 1865-07-20 Duplin

Thomas Bradley 1865-07-20 Duplin

Richard Cotton 1865-09-01 Chatham

Unidentified 1866-01-01 Beaufort

Unidentified 1866-02-01 Duplin

Unidentified 1866-02-01 Lenoir

Unidentified 1866-02-01 Lenoir

Unidentified 1866-02-01 Lenoir

Unidentified 1866-02-01 Lenoir

Unidentified 1866-02-14 Lenoir

Jesse Hart 1866-10-04 Greene

Mac Walker 1866-10-23 New Hanover

Unidentified 1867-01-08 Greene

Unidentified 1867-01-08 Greene

Unidentified 1867-01-08 Greene

Unidentified 1867-01-08 Greene

Unidentified 1867-01-08 Greene

Unidentified 1867-01-08 Greene

Unidentified 1867-01-08 Greene

Archie Beebe 1867-02-11 Cumberland

James Norcum 1867-11-01 Washington

child Blue 1869-01-20 Moore

child Blue 1869-01-20 Moore

child Blue 1869-01-20 Moore

child Blue 1869-01-20 Moore

child Blue 1869-01-20 Moore

mother Blue 1869-01-20 Moore

Bob Grady 1869-01-24 Lenoir

Cater Grady 1869-01-24 Lenoir

Daniel Smith 1869-01-24 Lenoir

Richard Nobles 1869-01-24 Lenoir

Lewis Cogden 1869-03-14 Greene

Daniel Morrow 1869-08-07 Orange

Jefferson Morrow 1869-08-07 Orange

Providence Bryant 1869-08-16 Jones

M.L. Shepard 1869-08-16 Jones

Wright Woods 1869-09-12 Orange

Cyrus Guy 1869-12-02 Orange

Wyatt Outlaw 1870-02-26 Alamance

William Puryear 1870-03-01 Alamance

Robin Jacobs 1870-05-13
John Stephens 1870-05-21 Caswell

David Weston 1871-04-26 Rutherford

Silas Weston 1871-04-26 Rutherford

Theodosia Weston 1871-04-26 Rutherford

William Herbert Steadman 1871-04-26 Rutherford

Jule Davidson 1878-12-21 Iredell

Doyle Bryant 1881-01-21 Sampson

John Taylor 1881-06-12 Rockingham

John Lindsay 1881-06-20 Stokes

Estes Hairston 1881-06-20 Stokes

Elijah Church 1881-10-06 Catawba

Edmund Davis 1881-10-17 Union

John Brodie 1881-12-01 Granville

Shadrack Hester 1881-12-01 Granville

James Council/Isaiah Cauniel/John Collins/Ike Blunt 1883-04-10 Bertie

Archie Johnson 1883-09-20 Richmond

Charles Campbell 1883-10-16 Iredell

Lawrence White 1883-11-08 Rowan

Erwin McCullough 1884-04-01 Gaston

Henry Swain 1884-05-15 Forsyth

George Johnson 1884-09-06 Rowan

Charles Smith 1884-12-24 Johnston

Thomas (Henry) Davis 1884-12-24 Johnston

Lee Staten 1885-03-04 Union

John Boggan/Baggan 1885-07-02 Anson

Harriet Finch 1885-09-28 Chatham

Jerry Finch 1885-09-28 Chatham

John Pattisall 1885-09-28 Chatham

Lee Tyson 1885-09-28 Chatham

Bud Mebane 1885-10-03 Caswell

John Lee 1885-12-18 Richmond

Alfred Long 1886-06-06 Davidson

T. C. Powell 1886-11-20 Edgecombe

Ben Hart 1887-05-08 Edgecombe

Unidentified 1887-08-20 Wilson

Eugene Hairston 1887-08-25 Guilford

Jim Greene 1887-12-25 Richmond

Patterson Spruill 1888-01-26 Washington

Jack Blount 1888-01-26 Washington

Matthew Blount 1888-01-26 Washington

William A. Parker 1888-03-13 Washington

Thomas Frazier 1888-05-05 Beaufort

John Humphreys 1888-07-15 Buncombe

Alonzo Smith 1888-09-02 Granville

Henry Tanner 1888-09-02 Granville

John Tanner 1888-09-02 Granville

John Carson 1888-12-02 Cleveland

John Sigmond 1889-09-07 Gaston

David Boone 1889-09-11 Burke

Franklin Stack 1889-09-11 Burke

Robert Berrier 1889-10-14 Davidson

John Starling 1890-05-24 Johnston

Hezekiah Rankin 1890-09-24 Buncombe

Kinch Freeman 1890-12-24 Hertford

Mack Best 1891-09-08 Sampson

Lymon Purdie 1892-05-01 Bladen

Alexander Whitley 1892-06-09 Stanly

Thomas Allison 1892-09-12 Surry

Joe Barco 1892-10-01 Camden

Carter Burnett 1892-11-14 Granville

Duncan McPhatter 1892-11-24 Scotland

Robert Ray 1893-01-06 Moore

Daniel Slaughter 1894-02-23 Alleghany

Holland English 1894-04-02 Mitchell

James Bergeron 1894-12-26 Beaufort

Robert Chambers 1896-03-21 Mitchell

Bob Brackett 1897-08-11 Buncombe

James Lafette 1897-10-01 Burke

Lafette child 1897-10-01 Burke

Joe Kizer 1898-05-29 Cabarrus

Tom Johnson 1898-05-29 Cabarrus

Joe Williams 1898-07-23 Halifax

Manly McCauley 1898-10-28 Orange

Mitch Moxley 1898-11-07 Macon

George Maney 1899-01-09 Graham

Henry Jones 1899-01-12 Chatham

Lewis Patrick 1899-06-15 Carteret

George Ratcliffe 1900-03-04 Haywood

George Ritter 1900-03-22 Moore

Avery Mills 1900-08-28 Rutherford

James Silas Martindale 1901-03-08 Moore

D.B. Jones 1901-06-18 Lenoir

Jim Bailey 1901-07-02 Johnston

Luke Huff/Hough 1901-08-21 Anson

Peter Mitchell 1901-12-27 Northampton

James Walker 1902-03-25 Beaufort

Harrison Gillespie/Cowan 1902-06-11 Rowan

James Gillespie 1902-06-11 Rowan

Thomas Jones 1902-08-25 Wayne

John Osborne 1903-07-03 Union

Manna Ponton 1903-08-21 Halifax

Dick Whitehead 1904-05-18 Northampton

John Moore 1905-08-27 Craven

John V. Johnson 1906-05-28 Anson

Jack Dillingham 1906-08-06 Rowan

John Gillespie 1906-08-06 Rowan

Nease Gillespie 1906-08-06 Rowan

Unidentified 1908-01-08 Johnston

Unidentified 1910-10-08 Caswell

Joseph McNeely 1913-08-26 Mecklenburg

James Wilson 1914-01-27 Johnston

Bessie Perry 1915-03-12 Vance

Josephine Perry 1915-03-12 Vance

John Richards 1916-01-12 Wayne

Joseph Black 1916-04-05 Greene

Lazarus Rouse 1916-08-01 Lenoir

Peter Bazemore 1918-03-23 Bertie

George Taylor 1918-11-05 Wake

John Daniels 1919-02-06 Onslow

Walter Tyler 1919-08-20 Franklin

Powell Green 1919-12-27 Franklin

Edward Roach 1920-07-07 Person

John Jeffress 1920-08-20 Alamance

Plummer Bullock 1921-01-23 Warren

Alfred Williams 1921-01-23 Warren

Jerome Whitfield 1921-08-14 Jones

Eugene Daniel 1921-09-18 Chatham

Bayner Blackwell 1922-08-06 Onslow

Doc C Bryant 1926-05-25 Duplin

Eliza Bryant 1926-05-25 Duplin

Willie McDaniel 1929-06-29 Mecklenburg

Ella May Wiggins 1929-09-14 Gaston

Laura Wood 1930-02-11 Rowan

Oliver Moore 1930-08-19 Wilson

Percy Berry 1932-04-14 Craven

Dock Rogers 1933-08-27 Pender

Govan “Sweat” Ward 1935-07-31 Franklin

Robert Melker 1941-04-13 Gaston

J. C. Farmer 1946-08-03 Nash

Source: https://lynching.web.unc.edu/the-people/