Died in jail or a lockup
Ed Davis
Ed Davis was one of three Black men held in the jail at Charlestown, in Clark County, in 1870. The sources say that after the circuit judge had taken the jail keys and left town, a mob broke down the jail door, took the three men, and hanged them from a tree just outside town. George W. Baxter was sheriff at the time, and the jail was the place that held Ed Davis when the mob took him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob broke into the Charlestown jail, took Ed Davis and two other Black men from it, and hanged them from a tree outside town, according to the 1870 newspaper account.
Reported by: 1870 newspaper account (Charlestown) (reporters).