Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black person held in the jail at Trenton, Tennessee, was taken from the jail and killed by masked men, according to a September 1874 report in The Valley Virginian. The paper counted this killing as one of fourteen in which Black people were taken from jails and killed in this way. The person's name is not known from the source, and the killing is not dated more precisely than 1874.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Valley Virginian reported that masked men took one of fourteen Black people from the Trenton, Tennessee jail and killed him.
Reported by: The Valley Virginian (reporters).