Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black person held in the jail at Trenton, Tennessee, was taken from it and killed by masked men, according to a September 1874 report in The Valley Virginian. The paper placed this killing among fourteen killings of Black people it described. The person is remembered here only through that account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Valley Virginian reported that masked men summarily murdered him after taking him from the jail at Trenton, Tennessee.
Reported by: The Valley Virginian (reporters).