Name not reported

This person was one of eight people held at a jail in Columbia, South Carolina, who were killed by a mob in February 1871. The Evening Telegraph reported that about five hundred mounted men, whom it said were supposed to be Ku Klux Klan members, took eight people held there out and killed them. The Sunbury American reported that the mob broke into the jail, took out ten Black people held there, and killed eight of them on the spot. Neither account names the person or says how old they were, and neither gives the exact date of the event.

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

Reported by: The Evening Telegraph (reporters).

Sources (2)

• The Evening Telegraph, February 15, 1871, page 4 The Evening Telegraph, February 15, 1871
• Sunbury American, February 18, 1871, page 2 Sunbury American, February 18, 1871