Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a newspaper account reprinted in the Fayette County Herald in March 1871, about 800 armed, masked men rode into town and blocked the roads. They went to the jail, forced the jailer to give up the keys, and took ten prisoners out. Two of the ten were hanged a short distance outside town, and this person was one of them. The mayor and a newspaper editor saw what happened and asked for soldiers.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper account reprinted in the Fayette County Herald says a masked band of about 800 men took ten prisoners from the jail after the jailer gave up the keys, and hanged two of them.
Reported by: Fayette County Herald (reprinting a newspaper account) (reporters).