David Cook
David Coak, a Black man, was taken from the sheriff's custody in Kershaw County, South Carolina, and lynched by a mob. A Charleston dispatch printed in the Tombstone Weekly Epitaph places his death on Saturday, July 15, 1882. A second brief Charleston dispatch, printed in the Burlington Weekly Free Press, also describes masked men taking him from the sheriff and killing him. Both reports come from newspaper accounts of the killing.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Charleston dispatch printed in the Tombstone Weekly Epitaph says David Coak was taken from the sheriff's custody in Kershaw County and lynched; a second brief Charleston dispatch says masked men took him from the sheriff.
Reported by: Charleston dispatch printed in the Tombstone Weekly Epitaph (reporters); Charleston dispatch (brief notice) (reporters).