Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the jail at Trenton, Tennessee, was killed in late August 1874. A mob forcibly took sixteen Black people from the jail that month and killed fourteen of them, and he was one of those killed. Two others were mortally wounded in the same attack.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Historical newspaper account of the 1874 Trenton, Tennessee jail mob (reporters).