Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Three Black people held at the jail in Winchester were taken from it by a mob in September 1871 and killed, according to a Nashville dispatch printed in The Weekly Democratic Statesman on October 5, 1871. They were in the jail's custody when the mob took them. The killings took place in Winchester in September 1871.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.