On December 20, 1918, a White mob seized two Black sisters, Maggie and Alma Howze, and two Black brothers, Major and Andrew Clark, from the Shubuta jail and hanged them from a river bridge one mile north of town. The quadruple lynching, followed . . . — — Map (db m287115) HM
The Shubuta Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was established circa 1843 by Rev. Samuel Jones and Rev. Elijah Gilmore. The first sanctuary built in 1860 was replaced by this Carpenter Gothic-style structure built in 1890, one of two such styled . . . — — Map (db m287033) HM