Died in jail or a lockup
Alex McCloud
Jacob Kimble and Alex McCloud were Black men held in the Mercer County jail in Ohio in July 1872. According to a Cincinnati Enquirer dispatch, a crowd of citizens came to the jail in the early morning, seized the sheriff and guards, took the keys and unlocked the cell doors. The crowd then took the men to a spot near Celina, where the dispatch says they were reportedly hanged. A Cincinnati dispatch reprinted in the Alexandria Gazette described two Black men held in the same jail being taken by citizens and hanged, without giving their names.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody