Died in jail or a lockup
Fayette Rhone
Fayette Rhone, a 21-year-old Black man, was one of seven men held under guard at Sunnyside, Texas, in April 1897. According to a Houston dispatch printed in the San Francisco Call, a mob overpowered the guards and took the seven men away. The paper reported that six bodies were found hanging from an oak tree the next morning, and that Rhone's was among them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The San Francisco Call, citing a Houston dispatch, reported that a mob overpowered the guards holding Rhone and six others at Sunnyside and hanged him from an oak tree.
Reported by: San Francisco Call (reporters).