Died in jail or a lockup
Tim Acoff
Tim Acoff was a Black man held in a jail near Brown's Station, Alabama, in April 1882. A brief wire report carried by the Daily Kennebec Journal says masked men took him and another prisoner out of the jail and hanged them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Masked men took Tim Acoff from the jail near Brown's Station, Alabama, and hanged him, according to a brief wire report.
Reported by: wire report.