Died in jail or a lockup
Oliver Thixon
Oliver Thixon, a Black man, was held at the jail in Fayette, Missouri, when a mob took him from the jail and lynched him, according to a brief national news item published in January 1891. The item does not say how the mob got in, whether the sheriff or jailer resisted or handed over the keys, or when the killing took place. It gives no details about who Oliver Thixon was or what his family said.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched