Phil Young
Phil Young, a Black man, was held in the jail at Palmyra in Fluvanna County, Virginia, when a mob took him from the jail in October 1892. According to a Richmond Dispatch special telegram, about twenty to twenty-five men hanged him from a tree a short distance from the jail. The report says he asked for time and begged to be shot instead. The same report says the jailer did not know of the mob's movements and that the bolts on the jail lock had been drawn out.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Phil Young from the Palmyra jail in Fluvanna County, Virginia, and hanged him from a tree near the jail, according to a Richmond Dispatch telegram, which says the jailer did not know of the mob's movements.
Reported by: Richmond Dispatch special telegram (reporters).