Died in jail or a lockup
Freeman Ward
Freeman Ward, a Black man, was held in the guard house at Union City, Tennessee, in April 1885. A Nashville dispatch printed in the Caldwell Tribune reports that a crowd of armed citizens took him from the guard house and hanged him from the same tree used in an earlier March lynching. The dispatch says the crowd took him together with a man named Farris. The guard house was the place where he was held when the crowd came for him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Nashville dispatch printed in the Caldwell Tribune says a crowd of armed citizens took Freeman Ward from the guard house at Union City, Tennessee, and hanged him.
Reported by: Nashville dispatch as printed in the Caldwell Tribune (reporters).