Record #:

15425

Author(s):

Funderburk, Coble

Abstract:

If a slave had not run away, Union County might have had to use a log cabin as a jail for a good many years longer. Due the brutal treatment of the runaway slave, his master was condemned to death, but a plea released him upon paying a fine of $3,000. This allowed the Union County jail to build a brick structure in 1847 in the town of Monroe.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 4 Issue 22, Oct 1936, p5, 24, f

Subject(s):

Jail--Union County