Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
One of three Black men held for safekeeping in the Clarkesville jail in Georgia was killed on May 17, 1892, according to a Grand Rapids Herald report published two days later. The paper says about 200 men reached the jail at 2 a.m. that Tuesday, and that the sheriff judged resistance useless. The mob broke down the doors, took the men out and hanged them from an oak tree beside a road outside town.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Grand Rapids Herald news report (reporters).