Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died August 1874 · Gibson County, Tennessee

A mob broke into the jail at Trenton, Tennessee, in late August 1874 and forcibly took sixteen Black people who were being held there. This person was one of fourteen taken from the jail and killed by the mob. Two others were mortally wounded in the same attack.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

News report