Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A young Black man held in Kemper County was being taken to DeKalb under the escort of a special deputy after a justice of the peace committed him to jail. The Weekly Clarion reported that armed citizens took him from the deputy on the way and hanged him on July 25, 1882. The Memphis Daily Appeal had earlier reported, on July 20, that a young Black man had been seized from a guard in Kemper County and supposedly hanged by a mob, though it presented the killing as supposition.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody