Marshal Sanberg
Marshal Sanberg was a Black man held in the Tiptonville jail in Tennessee in November 1908. On November 25, 1908, a mob took Marshal Sanberg and two other men from the jail and hanged them, according to the Semi-Weekly Herald of November 26, 1908. The paper reports that the crowd had surrounded the jail through the day, that the sheriff and his few guards might be overpowered, and that the crowd was put off by a promise of immediate trial. The mob later reassembled after troops were reported sent for.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The newspaper account says a mob took Marshal Sanberg from the Tiptonville jail and hanged him on November 25, 1908.
Reported by: newspaper account of the Tiptonville lynching (reporters).