Ed Steinbach

Ed Steinbach was one of three Black men held in the Tiptonville jail in Lake County, Tennessee. On the night of November 24, 1908, a mob took him and the two others from the jail and hanged them from a scaffold inside a Black church. The Los Angeles Herald reported that Governor Patterson had telegraphed the sheriff to prevent the lynching, and a lawyer had asked the crowd to wait for a trial. The men had been held in the jail before the mob came for them.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Ed Steinbach and two brothers from the Tiptonville jail and hanged them from a scaffold in a church, per newspaper accounts; the governor had telegraphed the sheriff to prevent it.

Reported by: news reports.

News reports (5)

• The New Haven Union, November 25, 1908, page 6 The New Haven Union, November 25, 1908
• The Montgomery Advertiser, November 26, 1908, page 1 The Montgomery Advertiser, November 26, 1908
• The Robesonian, November 26, 1908, page 2 The Robesonian, November 26, 1908
• Los Angeles Herald, November 26, 1908, page 1 Los Angeles Herald, November 26, 1908
• The Hartford Republican, December 4, 1908, page 3 The Hartford Republican, December 4, 1908