History of lynchings in Indiana Data indicates that there have been 21 reported lynchings in Indiana’s history and one survivor of an attempted lynching. Pulaski County Kosciusko County 1 reported lynching 1 reported lynching Saved from lynching Carroll County Grant County 1 reported lynching Hancock County 2 reported lynchings; 1 saved ■ Amer Green, Oct. 1887, 1 reported lynching On Aug. 7, 1930, accused of abduction ■ (—) Keemer, June 1875, James Cameron and murder accused of rape Jr., Thomas Vigo County Grant County Shipp and Abram Henry County Smith were 1 reported lynching See box at right 1 reported lynching lynched in ■ George Ward, 1901, ■ Eli Ladd, Feb. 1890, Marion, initially accused of murder alleged confrontation charged with Sullivan County with whites robbery, murder 1 reported lynching and rape. Shipp ■ James Dillard, Nov. Johnson County and Smith died, 1902, accused of rape 1 reported lynching but, miraculously, Knox County with the rope already around his neck, 1 reported lynching Clark County Cameron was saved. He was tried and convicted as an accessory to murder and ■ Holly Epps, Jan. 1886, 3 reported lynchings spent five years in prison. accused of murder ■ George Johnson, Squire Posey County Taylor and Charles Davis, In the 1940s, Cameron founded three 5 reported lynchings Nov. 1871, accused of murder chapters of the NAACP and later served as Indiana’s State Director of the Office ■ William Chambers, Jim Good, of Civil Liberties. In 1988, he founded Jeff Hopkins and Ed Warren, Spencer County America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Oct. 1878, accused of ravishing Warrick County 2 reported lynchings Milwaukee. Cameron is thought to be white women 1 reported lynching ■ Jim Henderson and Bud the only known survivor of a lynching ■ Dan Harris Sr., Oct. 1878, ■ John Rolla, Dec. 1900, Rowland, Dec. 1900, accused attempt in the United States. allegedly killed deputy sheriff alleged complicity in murder of murder Sources: Information compiled from www.monroeworktoday.org, lynchinginamerica.eji.org and the Library of Congress Kevin Burkett | (Logansport) Pharos-Tribune.