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Isaac Kemp

died June 8, 1895 · Somerset County Detention Center, Somerset County, Maryland

Isaac Kemp, a Black man, was held at the Princess Anne jail in Somerset County, Maryland, in June 1895. An 1906 Evening Capital list of Maryland lynchings records that a mob broke into the Princess Anne jail and killed him. The list names him among the Black men it records as lynched in the county.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper's list of Maryland lynchings says a mob broke into the Princess Anne jail and killed him, though the garbled text does not state it outright.

Reported by: a newspaper's list of Maryland lynchings (reporters).

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