Died in jail or a lockup
Joe Callender
Joe Callender, a Black man, was held in the jail at Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The Daily National Intelligencer reported that around half past midnight on January 14, 1869, fifteen or twenty men, described in the report as Ku Klux, took him from the jail. As of two in the afternoon the next day, the report said, nothing had been heard of what became of him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper report says fifteen or twenty men described as Ku Klux took him from the Murfreesboro jail around half past midnight, and nothing had been heard of his fate by two the next afternoon.