Amos Kidd
Amos Kidd was a Black youth, about 16 according to one account, who was held in the guard house at Enterprise in early July 1874. The Meridian Mercury, reprinted in The Star of Pascagoula, reported that a crowd demanded the keys, a scuffle followed, and the officers were placed under arrest. That account says the crowd then took Amos from the guard house and hanged him from a tree at the forks of two rivers, and that the jailer first refused the keys before handing them over after a scuffle. The Hickman Courier, citing an unnamed account, reported that a group of citizens overpowered the jailer and hanged him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Meridian Mercury reports that a crowd took Amos Kidd from the Enterprise guard house and hanged him, saying the jailer refused the keys at first before giving them up after a scuffle.
Reported by: The Hickman Courier, reporting an unnamed account (reporters); Enterprise special to the Meridian Mercury, reprinted in The Star of Pascagoula (reporters).