Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died October 22, 1893 · Bledsoe County, Tennessee

A Black person, whose name the 1893 report does not give, was held in the jail at Pikeville, Tennessee. On October 22, 1893, a mob took them from the jail and hanged them from a tree, according to the San Saba County News of October 27, 1893.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

News report