John Hughes
John Hughes was one of six Black men chained together in a wagon, being taken by a deputy sheriff and a guard toward Millington, Tennessee, in Shelby County. According to a news dispatch citing the deputy and guard, about fifty armed men stopped the wagon near a creek bridge and shot the prisoners, Hughes among them, on September 1, 1894. The deputy was held at revolver point during the attack, and neither he nor the driver recognized any of the men who did it. The dispatch gives no further account of the men or their reasons.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A deputy and guard said a mob of about fifty armed men stopped the wagon carrying the prisoners and shot them, and they did not recognize any of the attackers.
Reported by: the deputy and guard in the news dispatch. The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.