Aaron Eusris
Aaron Eusris, a Black man held in the Union jail in Union, South Carolina, was among ten Black prisoners whom a mounted party of about five hundred men took from the jail during the night of February 12, 1871. According to a special telegram to The Charleston Daily News, the men shot him, along with five others, at a hanging ground about a mile and a half from town. Sheriff Dunn of Union, as reported in that telegram, attributed the killings to a mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Sheriff Dunn of Union said Aaron Eusris was shot by a mob that took him from the Union jail, as reported in a special telegram to The Charleston Daily News.
Reported by: Sheriff Dunn of Union (the agency that held him); The Charleston Daily News (reporters).