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Joseph Price Batchelor 1880
- Joseph Price Batchelor m. Mary Tennessee (Tennie) Stewart
Joe Batchelor
Killed by negro Nelson Nash February 19, 1933
HE GAVE HIS LIFE TO PROTECT HIS WIFE
- With his hands tied, he fought the negro, and said "run Tennie"
Joseph Price Batchelor WOW b. 11/17,/1880, d. 2/19/1933 m. Tennie S Batchelor 1881 b. 8/23/1881 d. 4/19/1966 N 32.19.850 W 93.15.518
A negro who kidnaped a bank cashier and his wife
in an attempted robbery
and killed the man for defending the woman against attack
was lynched by citizens at the scene of the slaying.
Officers said the negro, identified as 24 year old Nelson Nash 1909,
of Leesville, La, early in the morning entered the home
of J. P. Batchelor, 52, cashier of the Ringgold bank,
and forced Mr. Batchelor and his wife
to take him to the bank and open the doors.
Mr. Batchelor told the negro he could not open the vault
because of the time lock.
When Mr. Batchelor's car would not start,
the negro forced the couple, still in their nightclothes,
to accompany him up the railroad about a mile north of the town,
where he allegedly attempted to rape the woman.
Mr. Batchelor, with his hands still tied, grappled with the negro
and said "run Tennie"
and his wife ran to a nearby cabin for assistance.
The negro family hid Mrs Batchelor
when Nelson Nash came by looking for a white woman.
Mrs. Batchelor reported to Sheriff Henderson Jordan
that her husband had been murdered in a wooded area
about a mile out of Ringgold.
Mr. Batchelor was severely beaten about the head
and died of his injuries before they could get him back to town.
As the news of the crime spread
the Sheriff assembled a posse of five hundred locals
who captured Nash 15 miles away, near Sibley
and brought him back to Ringgold,
where officers said he confessed the slaying.
The crowd spirited the negro away to the scene of the slaying,
hanged him from a tree, and riddled his body with bullets.
