Roxie Elliot

Full Name

Roxie Elliot

Victim Profile

Roxie Elliot

Name Variations

Roxanna Elliott

Biography

Roxie Elliot, a 22-year-old white female, was lynched in Centerville by a mob of unknown persons, for the alleged crime of hanging her child who was only a few months old.
On April 15, 1891, Roxie Elliot, a black female, employed as a school teacher in Bibb County, was lynched in the woods of Bibb County by a mob of unknown persons. She was lynched for the alleged crime of hanging her child who was only a few months old.
Roxie Elliott, a black schoolteacher from Briarfield, Bibb County, Alabama, was lynched somewhere around the time of April 4, 1891 in Bibb County. The exact date of her lynching is unknown, but the first reports of her lynching appear in newspaper articles on April 4, 1891. Roxie Elliott was allegedly lynched for giving birth to an illegitimate child whom she was alleged to have murdered by lynching the infant, who was only several days old at the time of its death.

Documented or Attempted

Documented

Birth Date

Circa 1869

County of Birth; County of Death

N/A; Bibb County

Death Date

April (3, 4, 15) 1891

Age at Death

22

Race

Black

Sex

Female

Case Number

AMP007-18910403-000

Identified by:

Alabama Memory Project?

Spouse or Partner

Jerry Louis

Child

Hardiner Louis McClellan

All other relatives

Mila (Millie) (Sibling), Allen (Sibling), Lizzy (Sibling), and William(Sibling)

Occupation

Teacher