George Greene

George Greene, a Black man, was held in the Trenton jail in 1874 when, according to federal warrants reported in the Public Ledger, masked men took him from the jail and killed him. A dispatch reprinted in the Knoxville Weekly Chronicle lists him among ten men a mob took from a jail, and says his body was found in a river-bottom about a mile from town.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: United States Government warrants; Knoxville Weekly Chronicle, reprinting a dispatch (reporters).

Sources (2)

• Knoxville Weekly Chronicle, September 2, 1874, page 1 Knoxville Weekly Chronicle, September 2, 1874
• Public Ledger, September 12, 1874, page 3 Public Ledger, September 12, 1874