Sam Fair
Sam Fair was held in the jail at Prosperity when a crowd took him from it, according to an account from the Columbia (S.C.) Register, reprinted in the Savannah Morning News in January 1881. The paper reported that he was shot and left for dead, but was found alive at his mother's house the next day. It said a crowd of white and Black people then took him from his bed, carried him to Prosperity and hanged him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Columbia Register, as reprinted in the Savannah Morning News, reports that a crowd took Sam Fair from a jail at Prosperity, shot him, and hanged him after finding him alive at his mother's house.
Reported by: Columbia (S.C.) Register, as reprinted in the Savannah Morning News (reporters).