Died in jail or a lockup
Noah Cherry
Noah Cherry, an 18-year-old Black man, was held in the Princess Anne County jail in Virginia in November 1885. According to the Savannah Morning News, a crowd of about 200 men came to the jail and demanded the keys, and when the jailer refused, they broke the door down with a sledge hammer. The crowd took him out and hanged him from a tree beside the road. The same paper reported that shots were fired at his body as the crowd dispersed.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Princess Anne county jail records and newspaper accounts of the mob (reporters).