Died in jail or a lockup
Felix Wyley
Felix Wyley, a Black man, was held in the jail at Tiptonville, Kentucky. According to a short 1881 report in The People and New Hampshire Patriot, fifteen masked men took him from the jail and lynched him. The report says his body was still hanging from a tree when it was written.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched