Lizzie Law
Lizzie Law was Black and was one of four people being taken into custody by deputies toward a jail near Crosby, Alabama, when a mob seized them from the deputies. According to a Savannah, Georgia dispatch printed in The Times in August 1891, the four were then taken away and are believed to have drowned in the Chattahoochee River. The dispatch's account of the death is not confirmed by any recovered body in the report. The account is the newspaper's, and it was published within days of the events it describes.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Savannah dispatch to The Times says a mob took her from deputies and she is believed to have drowned in the Chattahoochee River.
Reported by: Savannah, Ga. special dispatch to The Times (reporters).