County: Monroe - Starting with T

Jack Taylor was executed at Clarendon (Monroe County) on May 25, 1883, “for the murder of an old man by the name of Ingram…in the summer of 1880,” a killing Taylor claimed was in self-defense. Hugh W. Ingram, age sixty-three, was a well-to-do white farmer in Monroe County’s Cache Township, where he lived with his twenty-four-year-old wife. He employed Jack Taylor, a six-foot, 175-pound, middle-aged white man reportedly “with a mean scoundrelly-looking eye, and was no doubt a very bad character.” Taylor returned to the Ingram farm one October 1880 evening “in a beastly state of intoxication” after drinking heavily in Clarendon. Taylor drunkenly accused Ingram of stealing from him, and the farmer ordered the laborer to get off his …