Name not reported

A Black person was being held in a Tennessee jail when an armed mob took them from the jail and killed them, according to the Lancaster Daily Intelligencer's report published in February 1881. The paper reported that they were the third of five Black people taken from that jail and lynched. The mob took them by force from the cells where they were held.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Source

• Lancaster Daily Intelligencer, February 19, 1881, page 2 Lancaster Daily Intelligencer, February 19, 1881