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Caleb Hagood

died 1884 · Fairfield County Detention Center, Fairfield County, South Carolina

Caleb Hagood was held in the jail at Winnsboro, in Fairfield County, South Carolina. According to a November 1890 report in the Newberry Herald and News, a mob of angry citizens took him from that jail and killed him near Woodward's store at Rockton, about six years earlier. The jail's role in the taking, whether officers resisted or handed over the keys, is not described in that account.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

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