Commemorating Black History: Sheriff, Deputy Sheriff and prisoner killed in 1915 by mob

WINNSBORO – On the morning of June 14, 1915, Fairfield County Sheriff Adam D. Hood, Deputy Sheriff Raleigh Boulware and several other deputies were escorting a black prisoner, Jules Smith, to court when an angry white mob who it is said were attempting to lynch the prisoner, shot and killed Hood and Smith and mortally […]

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