Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
This person was one of fourteen people killed in late August 1874 after a mob forcibly took sixteen Black people from the jail at Trenton, Tennessee. Their name and age are not given in the account. They had been held in the Trenton jail, and the mob took them from it and killed them. Two others were mortally wounded in the same events.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.