Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black person held in the jail at Trenton, Tennessee, was taken from custody and killed by masked men in 1874, according to a September 1874 report in The Valley Virginian. The paper counted this killing among fourteen in which Black people were killed by masked men, and it gives no name for the person.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Valley Virginian reported that masked men summarily murdered one of fourteen Black people taken from the Trenton, Tennessee jail.
Reported by: The Valley Virginian (reporters).