Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
This person was one of ten Black people whom several hundred Ku Klux Klan members took from a jail and killed, according to a congressional committee investigating Klan outrages in South Carolina, as reported by the Fremont Weekly Journal in 1871. The committee described the Klan members as acting under a military-style organization.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Congressional committee investigating Ku Klux outrages (outside investigators).