Massy Hill
Massey Hill, a Black man, was taken from a jail in Tennessee by a mob and lynched near Manchester, according to a Nashville dispatch printed in the Savannah Morning News. A second dispatch, printed in the Dallas Weekly Herald, reported the same killing under the spelling Massy Hill, and the two papers give the date as November 5 and November 6, 1881. Neither account says how the mob got into the jail or whether jail staff resisted or handed over the keys.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Nashville dispatch reported that a mob took Massey Hill from a jail and lynched him near Manchester, and a second dispatch, printed in the Dallas Weekly Herald, reports the same lynching of Massy Hill.
Reported by: Nashville dispatch published in the Savannah Morning News (reporters); Nashville dispatch printed in the Dallas Weekly Herald (reporters).