Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black person held in the jail at Trenton, Tennessee, was among fourteen people killed in late August 1874, when a mob forcibly took sixteen prisoners from the jail. The Valley Virginian reported the killings in early September 1874, and its account gives this person's name, age and other particulars as unknown. The mob took the prisoners from the jail and killed them. Two others taken in the same attack were reported mortally wounded.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.