Joe Vanlue
Joe Vanlue was held in the jail at Union, South Carolina, in February 1871. The Unionville Times, as reprinted in The Sumter Watchman, reports that a group of masked, mounted men took him from the town jail at night, and that his body was found the next morning tied to a small tree near other victims and shot with rifle balls. The Yorkville Enquirer and the Charleston Daily News give the night he was taken as the twelfth, the nineteenth or the twenty-sixth of February, so the date is unclear in the accounts.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A masked group took Joe Vanlue from the town jail and shot him with rifle balls, according to the Unionville Times, as reprinted in The Sumter Watchman.
Reported by: Unionville Times (reprinted in The Sumter Watchman) (reporters); Yorkville Enquirer (reprinting the Union Times) (reporters).