Died in jail or a lockup
Horid McCoy
Horid McCoy, a Black man, was being held in the jail at Foreman when, according to a March 1902 report in The Osceola Times, a mob took him from the jail and hanged him. A Woodruff County News report from March 20, 1902 describes a Black man taken from the Foreman jail by a mob and hanged, and it appears to describe the same killing, though it does not name him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Osceola Times reports that a mob took Horid McCoy from the jail at Foreman and hanged him.
Reported by: The Osceola Times (reporters).