Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

Madison County, Tennessee

A telegraph report carried by the San Antonio Daily Light on August 20, 1886, said an elderly Black woman was taken from a jail in Jackson, Tennessee, and lynched. A mob took her from the jail and killed her while she was in the custody of that jail.

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

Reported by: brief telegraph report.

News report