Ed Stineback
Ed Stineback, a Black man, was held in the Tiptonville jail in Lake County, Tennessee, with two brothers, according to the Montgomery Advertiser. On the night of November 24, 1908, a mob took the three men from the jail and hanged them from a scaffold inside a Black church. The Montgomery Advertiser reported that a lawyer asked the crowd to wait for a trial and that the governor urged the mob to stop. The Hartford Republican reported that the governor had telegraphed the sheriff asking him to prevent the lynching, and that the mob had agreed to let a court sentence the men before breaking that agreement.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Ed Stineback and his brothers from the Tiptonville jail and hanged them from a scaffold inside a Black church, according to the accounts; one account says a lawyer asked the crowd to wait for trial and the governor urged the mob to stop, but the accounts do not say whether the sheriff resisted or gave up the keys.
Reported by: Tiptonville jail accounts (news reporting of the lynching) (reporters).