Died in jail or a lockup
Henry Ivy
Henry Ivy, a Black man, was held in a jail near Brown's Station, Alabama, in April 1882. According to a brief wire report carried by the Daily Kennebec Journal on April 15, 1882, masked men took him and another prisoner out of the jail and hanged them. The same report is the source for the claim that a mob killed him, and it does not describe how the jail's staff responded.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A brief wire report says masked men took Henry Ivy from the jail near Brown's Station, Alabama, and hanged him.
Reported by: news reports.