Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held at the jail at Culpepper, West Virginia, was taken from the jail by about sixty masked men on the night before August 10, 1877, according to a Baltimore report printed in the Memphis Daily Appeal, and was hanged. His name is garbled in the surviving newspaper text and cannot be recovered from it. The mob's taking of him is the only account of what happened to him that the report gives, and it is a secondhand newspaper account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Baltimore newspaper report carried in an 1877 paper (reporters).