Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a Chattanooga dispatch printed in the Stark County Democrat in October 1883, a Black man held in a jail was taken out by about fifty masked men and hanged. The dispatch attributes the account to the mob's action and gives no other account of how the man was taken. The man's name is not given in the account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Chattanooga dispatch printed in the Stark County Democrat says about fifty masked men hanged a man taken from a jail.
Reported by: Chattanooga dispatch, as printed in the Stark County Democrat (reporters).