Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man whose name was not recorded was one of eight Black men lynched in the Monroe area of Georgia around the turn of the century. He was held in the jail at Watkinsville, and a mob took him from it, according to an aged local resident recalled in a 1946 report. He died in 1897. The resident recalled that he was fastened to a fence and riddled with bullets.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. An aged local resident, as recalled in a 1946 ANP report, said the men were taken from the Watkinsville jail, fastened to a fence and shot.
Reported by: an aged local resident, as recalled in the ANP report; ANP report (1946) (reporters).