Died in custody
Name not reported
According to The Sun, on July 7, 1876, the younger of two brothers surnamed Campbell was being taken under guard by a sheriff and deputies from Hallettsville, Texas, toward another town. Near Peach Creek, the paper said, a crowd of about three hundred men surrounded the party and demanded the prisoners, and the officers' efforts to stop them failed. The crowd took the brothers to a nearby spot, hanged them, and dispersed, leaving them suspended above the ground.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A crowd of about three hundred men took the younger Campbell brother from the sheriff and deputies escorting him and hanged him near Peach Creek.
Reported by: The Sun (reporters).