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Slayden, Mississippi

Field	Value
official_name	Slayden, Mississippi
settlement_type	Unincorporated community
pushpin_map	Mississippi#USA
pushpin_label	Slayden
pushpin_label_position	bottom
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	United States
subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_name1	Mississippi
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Marshall
timezone	Central (CST)
utc_offset	-6
timezone_DST	CDT
utc_offset_DST	-5
elevation_ft	571
coordinates
blank1_name	GNIS feature ID
blank1_info	677877

Slayden is an unincorporated community in Marshall County, Mississippi, United States. It is located along U.S. Route 72 in northeast Marshall County, about 35 miles from Memphis, Tennessee.

History

The community was settled in the 1860's and was originally known as "Gourd Neck", then "Slayden's Crossing". A post office operated in Slayden from 1875 to 1909. Slayden was named for Everett Daniel Slayden. The population in 1900 was 26.

In 1935, Ab Young, a black tenant farmer, was lynched in Slayden by a group of 50 white men. Young had allegedly murdered a white man. Although members of the mob had provided their names and addresses to two reporters from the Memphis Press-Scimitar, the authorities took no action because they claimed they had no clues to the identify of the killers.

References

{{cite gnis. 677877. Slayden
Rowland, Dunbar. (1907). "Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form". Southern Historical Publishing Association.
(April 9, 1935). "Newspapermen take big risk to see lynching". [[Winnipeg Tribune]].
(March 13, 1935). "Lynchers Unknown". [[Anniston Star]].

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