Lynching of Sam Jenkins: December 5, 1870
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City: Huntsville, Texas
County: Walker County
Race or Ethnicity of Victim: Black
Gender of Victim: Male
Age of Victim: Sixty-eight
Alleged Crime: Testifying Against White Men
Manner of Death: Shot
Source of Information: National newspapers
Files
Register of Complaints, Vol 113, March to December 1868, Freedmen's Bureau Papers, Huntsville, Texas
Source: Family Search Online | Date: December 1868
Voting Registration in Walker County, Texas, 1867-1869
Source: Walker County Voting Records, 1869
Sam Jenkins listed in the 1870 Census for Walker County, Texas
Source: U.S. Census | Date: July 6, 1870
Sharecropping Contract between W.S. Parks and Sam Jenkins
Source: Deed Records, Vol 1, Part 2 | Date: January 24, 1870
Sharecropping Contract between W.S. Parks and Sam Jenkins
Source: Deed Records, Vol I, Part 2 | Date: January 24, 1870
Map of Walker County, Texas
Source: Deed Room, Walker County
File #3880: [Untitled]
"The Walker County Difficulty"
Source: Galveston Daily News (Galveston, Texas) | Date: February 22, 1871
"Second Dispatch"
Source: Galveston Daily News (Galveston, Texas) | Date: March 7, 1871
"Desperadoes in Texas"
Source: Albany Register (Albany, Oregon) | Date: March 11, 1871
"Texas"
Source: Times Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana) | Date: March 12, 1871
"Outlaw's Release"
Source: Galveston Daily News (Galveston, Texas) | Date: March 29, 1871