Davis

Doc Davis, a Black man, was being taken to the Decatur jail by a deputy sheriff on Sunday, July 17, 1892, according to newspaper dispatches from Memphis, Tennessee. Those dispatches report that a mob seized him from the deputy and lynched him. Papers printed the report between July 19 and July 22, 1892. The accounts name the deputy as the officer who had Davis in his charge when the mob took him.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Memphis news dispatch reports that a mob seized Doc Davis from a deputy while he was being taken to the Decatur jail and killed him.

Reported by: news dispatch from Memphis, Tenn. (reporters).

Sources (4)

• The Indianapolis Journal, July 19, 1892, page 3 The Indianapolis Journal, July 19, 1892
• The Beatrice Daily Express, July 19, 1892, page 1 The Beatrice Daily Express, July 19, 1892
• Rock Island Daily Argus, July 20, 1892, page 1 Rock Island Daily Argus, July 20, 1892
• The Times, July 22, 1892, page 3 The Times, July 22, 1892