Died in jail or a lockup
Thomas Peody
Thomas Peody, a Black man, was held in the jail at Greenville, Tennessee. On Sunday, January 11, 1885, about two hundred armed men came to the jail and demanded that the jailer hand him over. The jailer, judging resistance useless and wanting to protect the other prisoners, gave him up, and the mob took him about a mile and a half from the city and hanged him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Greenville jailer (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.