Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black person held at the jail in Trenton, Tennessee, was taken from it by a mob in late August 1874 and killed. The mob forcibly removed sixteen people from the jail, and fourteen of them, including this person, were killed. Two others from the group were mortally wounded.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.