Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died August 1874 · Gibson County, Tennessee

A Black person held in the jail at Trenton, Tennessee, was killed in late August 1874 after a mob forcibly took them from the jail. The mob took sixteen people from the jail and killed fourteen of them. Two others were mortally wounded.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

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