Stephen Renfro
Accounts of the night of July 13, 1886, describe a man held at the jail in Livingston, Alabama, who was taken from the jail by a mob and lynched. The Huntsville Gazette named him Steve Renfroe, and The Marietta Journal named him Stephen Renfro, reporting that about seventy-five disguised men overawed the jailer and hanged him outside the city limits. A dispatch in The Big Sandy News gave the name John Kentoe and described him as a former sheriff. The papers differ on his name, and they do not say whether the jailer resisted or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Newspaper accounts say a mob took Steve Renfro from the Livingston, Alabama jail on the night of July 13, 1886 and hanged him, and the Marietta Journal says the disguised men overawed the jailer.
Reported by: Huntsville Gazette (reporters); The Marietta Journal (reporters); news dispatch datelined Chattanooga, Tenn. (reporters).