Louis Kinder
Louis Kinder, a Black man, was held in the town guardhouse at George's, South Carolina, and on March 1, 1880 he was in the custody of special constables taking him to Walterboro. A Charleston News and Courier report, reprinted in the Abbeville Press and Banner, says about seven or eight white men stopped the constables a mile and a half from George's, took him from the officers and rode toward Branchville. The same report says a posse overtook the group near Branchville and found him chained by the neck to a buggy, and its headline says he was hanged by the light of a camp fire in the woods.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Charleston News and Courier, reprinted in the Abbeville Press and Banner, reports that a mob took Louis Kinder from special constables after he was held in the George's town guardhouse and that he was hanged.
Reported by: Charleston News and Courier, reprinted in the Abbeville Press and Banner (reporters).