Rice
A Black man named Rice was held in the jail at St. Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. According to a New Orleans dispatch printed in the Memphis Daily Appeal, a group of white men took him out of the jail on a Tuesday night in early January 1878 and hanged him. A report in the Dallas Weekly Herald, published January 19, 1878, describes the same killing of a Black man taken from the St. Francisville jail on January 8, 1878, and says he was hanged by a party of white men.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Memphis Daily Appeal article citing a New Orleans dispatch reports that a group of white men took Rice from the St. Francisville jail and hanged him.
Reported by: Memphis Daily Appeal, citing a New Orleans dispatch (reporters).