Henry McKinney
Henry McKinney, an 18-year-old Black man, was held in the jail in Columbia, Houston County, Alabama, in July 1910. According to Sheriff T. W. Butler, a mob of about fifty men took him from the jail and carried him toward the Chattahoochee River. Sheriff Butler arrived too late to stop the mob and later reported finding pieces of the man's clothing on the riverbank. Local accounts at the time said he was lynched, but his fate was never confirmed, and the newspapers differ on how the mob reached him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Sheriff T. W. Butler said a mob of about fifty men took Henry McKinney from the Columbia jail and he was popularly believed to have been lynched.
Reported by: Sheriff T. W. Butler (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.