Ed Stoneback
Ed Stineback, a Black man, was one of three brothers held in the Tiptonville jail in Lake County, Tennessee. 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. One report says a lawyer had asked the crowd to wait for a trial and that the governor urged them to stop, while another says the sheriff had received telegrams from the governor asking him to prevent the lynching. Neither account says whether the sheriff resisted the mob or gave up the keys.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. News reports say a mob took Ed Stineback and his two brothers from the Tiptonville jail and hanged them from a scaffold inside a Black church.
Reported by: news reports of the Tiptonville lynching (reporters).