Died in jail or a lockup
George Marshall Clark
George Marshall Clark was a young Black man who aspired to be a barber. In September 1861 he was held in the Milwaukee County jail, where a mob stormed the building in the early morning, dragged him from his cell, beat him and hanged him from a pile driver near the Milwaukee River, in what is now the Third Ward. Police came that morning to cut him down, and six men were arrested, though none were convicted. He was buried in an unmarked grave until Tyrone MackLee Randle helped secure a headstone, and a bronze marker was unveiled at 220 E. Buffalo St. in the Third Ward.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.