Executed

Martha Young

Chester County Detention Center, Chester County, South Carolina

Martha Young, who was Black, was hanged in the jail yard at Chester, South Carolina, along with four other people, according to a report in the Perrysburg Journal published May 28, 1892. The report places the hanging in the Chester jail yard and gives hanging as the cause of death.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Source

Perrysburg Journal, May 28, 1892, page 2 Perrysburg Journal, May 28, 1892

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