Died in jail or a lockup
Lizzie Jackson
Lizzie Jackson, a Black woman, was one of five people held in the Elkhart jail in Texas when a mob broke in early on a Sunday morning in June 1885. According to The Rock Island Argus, the mob took her and the others from the jail and hanged them from a tree. The report says the deputy sheriffs were powerless to stop them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched