Editing Kirvin, Texas (section)

==History==
On May 6, 1922, three local [[Lynching in Kirvin, Texas|African-American men were lynched]] in Kirvin by being mutilated and then burned alive for the alleged murder of a 17-year-old white girl, Eula Ausley. Their names were Snap Curry, Mose Jones and Johnny Cornish.<ref>Bills, E. R. ''Black Holocaust: The Paris Horror and a Legacy of Texas Terror''. Eakin Press, 2015</ref> Some 500 local Kirvin townsfolk, including the victim's grandfather, took part in the killings. Evidence now points to the innocence of at least two of the three victims. During the next month, there were several more instances of lynching by hanging of other black men in the area.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://amarillo.com/stories/1999/04/18/boo_story.shtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304061647/https://www.amarillo.com/stories/1999/04/18/boo_story.shtml#.VtkoVPjP1qY|archive-date=March 4, 2016|title=Story of East Texas lynching is a tale to remember|access-date=August 7, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/freestone/history/town/kirven.txt|title=Freestone County, Texas - Towns - Kirvin/Kirven|format=txt|access-date=August 7, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.texasobserver.org/822-book-review-the-fire-last-time/| title = Book Review - The Texas Observer| date = August 25, 2000}}</ref> Ausley is buried in the Shanks Memorial Cemetery in Kirvin, on 950 just east of FM 80.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/freestone/cemetery/shanks.txt|title=Freestone County, Texas - Cemeteries - Shanks Memorial Cemetery (near Kirvin, Freestone Co., TX.) (a.k.a. Liberty Hill Cemetery)|format=txt|access-date=August 7, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rarenewspapers.com/|title=Timothy Hughes Rare & Early Newspapers - RareNewspapers.com|website=www.rarenewspapers.com}}</ref> A book by Monte Akers titled ''Flames After Midnight: Murder, Vengeance, and the Desolation of a Texas Community'' was written about the incident.<ref>{{Cite book|isbn = 978-0292726338|title = Flames After Midnight: Murder, Vengeance, and the Desolation of a Texas Community, Revised Edition|last1 = Akers|first1 = Monte|date = May 25, 2011}}</ref> Two white men<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.blackwallstreet.freeservers.com/kirvine%201922.htm|title=Kirven, Texas 1922}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3Z8-BXV|title=FamilySearch.org}}</ref><ref>[https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZF8-FCC Claude Prowell died 1987 Texas];</ref> who were suspects in the Ausley killing were never charged-despite bloody tracks from the murder scene to their house.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1898&dat=19220506&id=LVYpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-W0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=5566,2326014&hl=en|title=The Norwalk Hour - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com}}</ref>