Gilbert
Gilbert, a Black man, was held in the jail at Coffeeville, Mississippi, with another man, Tom McLain, according to a Memphis dispatch reprinted in The Athens Post. The dispatch says a large party of masked horsemen took both men from the jail on the night of July 31, 1868, carried them a short distance from town and hanged them. It says the jailer and sheriff resisted the mob until they were overpowered.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Memphis dispatch reprinted in The Athens Post says a party of masked horsemen took Gilbert from the Coffeeville, Mississippi jail and hanged him, and that the jailer and sheriff resisted until overpowered.
Reported by: Memphis dispatch reprinted in The Athens Post (reporters); Grenada dispatch, August 5, 1868 (reporters).