Name not reported
A Black man held in the Somerville, Alabama jail on July 28, 1875 was taken from his cell by a mob of about seventy-five men, according to a Decatur correspondent's dispatch printed in the Nashville Union and American. The dispatch says the men demanded the jailer's keys and had a blacksmith cut the chains that held him to the floor. He was then led about 300 yards from the jail and hanged from a tree. His name is not legible in the surviving text, and no other details about who he was are given.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Decatur correspondent reported that a mob of about seventy-five men took a man from the Somerville jail and hanged him from a tree.
Reported by: Decatur correspondent, Nashville Union and American (reporters).