Name not reported

A mob of about five hundred mounted men, described in the Evening Telegraph as supposedly Ku Klux Klan members, broke into the jail in Columbia, South Carolina, in February 1871 and took Black people held there out and killed them. The Telegraph reported eight people killed, and the Sunbury American, publishing three days later, said the mob took out ten Black prisoners and killed eight of them on the spot. This person was one of those killed, and no name is recorded for them in either account.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Evening Telegraph reported that about five hundred mounted men, supposed to be Ku Klux Klan members, took eight people from the Columbia, South Carolina, jail and killed them.

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