Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a congressional committee investigating Ku Klux Klan outrages in South Carolina, this Black person was one of ten people whom several hundred Klan members took from a jail and killed, acting under a military-style organization. The committee's findings were reported by the Fremont Weekly Journal in August 1871. No name, age, date or specific place is given for this person.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Congressional committee investigating Ku Klux outrages (outside investigators).