Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the jail in Union, South Carolina, was one of six men a mob reportedly took from the jail and killed, according to a Washington Chronicle dispatch reprinted by the Alexandria Gazette in January 1871. The dispatch gives no name for him and no date for the killing. Its account is that the mob took the men from the jail and killed them, without saying whether the jailers resisted or handed the men over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Washington Chronicle dispatch (reporters).