Died in jail or a lockup
Nelson Featheroff
Nelson Featheroff, about fifty years old, was a husband and the father of six married daughters, according to newspaper accounts. He was held in a jail in Ohio. On the night of Thursday, May 30, 1895, a mob took him from the jail, hanged him from a tree limb and shot his body, according to the accounts.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Nelson Featheroff from a jail, hanged him from a tree limb and shot his body, according to a 1895 dispatch; a second dispatch places him in the jail at Chillicothe, which conflicts with the first.
Reported by: news reports.