Carroll County MsArchives Obituaries.....McCray, (Betsie, Pelfield & Ida) 1901
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St. Petersburg Times Newspaper, August 10, 1901
NEGROES LYNCHED -- The murder of Mr. and Mrs. TALIAFERO, in Carrollton, Miss., 
culminated in the lynching of Betsie MCCRAY, her son Pelfield MCCRAY, and 
daughter, Ida MCCRAY, all colored.  The mob was composed of about five hundred 
white citizens of Carroll county, who marched to the jail in order, demanded the 
keys from Jailer DUKE, proceeded to the cells of the unfortunate negroes, bound 
them to the corporation limits of town, where they hung them to a tree by the 
public roadside and riddled their bodies with bullets. The mob resisted the 
earnest appeals of Judge W.G. STEPHENS and Hon. W.S. HALL, who stood on the 
steps of the jail and appealed to them in the name of law and order.  They even 
followed the mob to the cell doors with arms around the necks of the leaders, 
pleading to let the law take its course, but with no effect.

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