Tony Johnson
Tony Johnson was one of three Black men held in the jail at Tuscumbia, Alabama, in April 1894. Newspaper accounts say a masked mob of about 200 men came to the jail late on a Saturday night, forced the jailer out, and took the keys from his wife. The men were taken from their cells and led to a bridge over the Tennessee River, where they were hanged and their bodies were then shot. Accounts give the date as April 21 or 22.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A masked mob of about 200 men took the jailer's keys from his wife, removed Tony Johnson and two other men from their cells, and hanged them from the Tennessee River bridge, where their bodies were shot.
Reported by: Tuscumbia jail accounts in 1894 newspapers (reporters).