Died in jail or a lockup
Henry Coleman, Jr.
Henry Coleman, Jr., a Black man, was held at the jail in Benton, Louisiana, when about eighty men came, took him from the jail, and lynched him on September 20, 1893. On the morning of his death, a preacher baptized him, and according to the account he said he was ready for what awaited him. The newspaper report gives no further account of his life, and it describes the killing only as a mob action carried out by men who took him from the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.