Cordella Stevenson
Cordella Stevenson was lynched after a mob came to her home and dragged her out on December 8, 1915.
The site of her lynching was only 50 yards north of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.
She was raped and stripped naked before being hanged.
Her killing followed Gabe Frank, a local white man, loss of his barn to fire. Cordella’s son was suspected to have carried out the act.
After unsuccessfully locating the Stevensons’ son, Frank had Cordella arrested. She was held for several days where she denied knowing the whereabouts of her son. She was eventually released, causing her to believe the ordeal was over. Cordella and her husband Arch were asleep in bed on that Wednesday night when a mob pounded on their door and eventually broke it down. Cordella was snatched and subsequently lynched to death.
