Henry McKimes
Henry McKimes, a Black man of eighteen, was held in the jail in Houston County, Alabama. According to Sheriff T. W. Butler, a mob of about fifty men took him from the jail and carried him toward the Chattahoochee River. The sheriff said his clothing was found on the riverbank, and he is generally supposed to have been lynched. No death has been confirmed, and the account rests on the sheriff's statement as published in the New-York Tribune in July 1910.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Sheriff T. W. Butler says a mob of about fifty men took Henry McKimes from the Houston County jail and carried him toward the Chattahoochee River, where his clothing was found, and he is generally supposed to have been lynched.
Reported by: Sheriff T. W. Butler of Houston County (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.