Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A young Black man, whose name is unreadable in the OCR text of an 1891 Perrysburg Journal article, was held in the jail at Jackson, Tennessee. According to the paper, a party of masked men took him from the jail and hanged him to a tree.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.