Died in jail or a lockup
Jeff Rogers
Jeff Rogers was held in the Lafayette jail in Lafayette, Chambers County, Alabama. Around midnight on Saturday, February 2, 1884, about fifty men forcibly took him from the jail and hanged him from a tree. Another man held in the same cell escaped during the events. Newspaper accounts published February 5, 1884 describe the killing as a mob action.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.