Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
This person, who was Black, was held in the jail at Trenton, Tennessee, in late August 1874. A mob forcibly took sixteen Black people from the jail that month and killed fourteen of them. This person was among those killed. Two others from the group were mortally wounded.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.