Simeon Garrett
Simeon Garnet, a Black man, was held in the Old Town Hall Jail in Oxford, Ohio, in September 1877. According to a historical marker unveiled in 2021, a mob broke into the jail and shot him, and he survived that first attack. The marker says the mob returned, shot him at close range and dragged him outside, and he died on September 3, 1877. Newspapers of the time gave his name as Garnett and Garrett and reported that a crowd took him from the jail and shot him, and descendants of Simeon Garnet attended the marker's unveiling in Oxford.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A historical marker text says a white mob broke into the Oxford, Ohio Town Hall Jail, shot him at close range and dragged him outside to die; a Cincinnati dispatch reports a crowd took him from the jail and shot him dead.
Reported by: historical marker text; Cincinnati dispatch printed in The Weekly Clarion (reporters).