Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
This person was one of fourteen Black people killed in late August 1874 after a mob forcibly took them from the jail at Trenton, Tennessee, where they were being held. Sixteen people were seized from the jail in that attack, and two others were mortally wounded. The jail held these people in its custody, and the mob took them from it and killed them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.