Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man was being held in the jail in Union, South Carolina, when a mob reportedly took him from it and killed him. He was one of six men said to have been taken from the jail and killed. A dispatch from the Washington Chronicle, reprinted by the Alexandria Gazette on January 9, 1871, described the men being taken from the jail and killed.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Washington Chronicle dispatch (reporters).