This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/5266 Message Board Post: Galveston Daily News – Fri., 15 Aug 1877, p. 2, c. 5 Lynching - Rockdale Messenger - Saturday last a negro boy about 18 or 20-years of age, name unknown, was hung to a tree in the road between Maysfield and Cameron, near and Cameron, near Elm creek, in this county, by a party of unknown men, while being taken to the county jail at Cameron. The negro was charged with having attempted an outrage upon the person of a young lady [no name given] near Jones Prairie on last Friday night.