Clay County AlArchives News.....Mitchell, Lobina Murder After Three-Quarters of a Century still Remembered March 25, 1956
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Anniston Star March 25, 1956
On a lonely road near that time-forgotten Clay County town is a monument, a mute 
shaft marking for the occasional passerby one of the long-remembered tragedies 
of this area; "In memory of the tragic death of Mrs. Lobina Knight Mitchell June 
30, 1881, by the cruel hands of Charles J. Waldrep, age 24, who was hanged on 
this spot by the public July 1881. Erected by M. D. Amason, Commissioner, 
District No. 3, Clay County, Alabama, 1949". 
Here was climaxed an upsurge of public indignation which began four days 
previously with the brutal murder of an 18-year-old expectant mother who had. 
been a bride only a few months before. Nieces and nephews of the victim still 
live in this area. Spectators to the hanging of Charley Waldrep recall his 
second, and fatal, hanging after the first effort failed. Mementoes of the 
tragedy may be seen........
Biney' Mitchell's unmarked grave is on a hill across the road from the Cragford 
school house near those of her brothers and sisters. But through her final 
resting place is forgotten, she is not. Mrs. Annie Harris and Mrs. Nancy 
Summerlin, both almost 90 years old now, remember watching the hanging of 
Charley Waldrep. The chain with which he was hanged is in the possession of Dee 
Walker of Cragford, a nephew of Biney, and a niece, Mrs. Winford Young of 
Lineville, has the dress Biney was wearing when she was killed. Boss Knight of 
Decatur and Mart Knight of Montgomery, brothers of Biney Mitchell, are still 
living. O. L. Mitchell and Mrs. Fannie Peek of Cragford, nephew and niece of the 
victim, also survive. After three-quarters of a century Biney Mitchell is 
remembered it in Clay County.

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