Lynched
This file appears in: The 1871 Lynching of Three Black Men in Clark County
Despite resistance from the local sheriff, the Ku Klux Klan removed Johnson, Davis, and Taylor from jail and lynched them. Reports indicated that the lynching victims’ families feared retribution for burying the bodies and left them in the hands of the county coroner. After the coroner’s examinations, they were buried in the town cemetery.
This file appears in: The 1871 Lynching of Three Black Men in Clark County
The 1871 Lynching of Three Black Men in Clark County
At Charlestown Cemetery in Clark County the mutilated bodies of three lynched men are buried. On a Saturday in November of 1871, the family of Cyrus Park, a White farmer who lived near Henryville, Indiana, was murdered. Using the Parks' own axe, the…