Died in jail or a lockup
Mark Davis
Mark Davis worked a share of a corn crop on a farm near the Dominick settlement in Newberry County, South Carolina. In November 1906, a constable was taking him to the Newberry jail when a group of masked men waited by the roadside at Smyrna church. The men overpowered the constable and took Mark Davis away, and The Lancaster News, reporting from Newberry, said he had disappeared and called his death a lynching.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Masked men overpowered the constable at Smyrna church and took Mark Davis away, and The State newspaper calls his death a lynching.
Reported by: The State newspaper (reporters).