Died in jail or a lockup
Sam Owensby
Sam Owensby, a Black man, was held in the jail at Hogansville, Georgia. On the night of May 12, 1913, a mob took him from the jail and hanged him from a tree, according to an Associated Press report. The newspaper accounts describe his death as a lynching, and no official account of it is cited.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Associated Press (reporters).