One of 2 people whose names were not reported
No name is recorded for this man, who was one of three men held in the Florence, Alabama jail when a mob took them out and hanged them on September 5, 1872, according to the Opelousas Journal's editorial. The Kentucky Gazette reports that armed guards at the jail fired on the attackers but did not stop them, and a Montgomery Advertiser report from Florence says it had no information about who carried out the hanging. The Opelousas Journal says one of the three was mortally wounded before he was hanged, and that townspeople refused to let the bodies be buried in the cemetery. The accounts agree on the number of men but differ on how the jail was breached and who took part.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. An armed mob took three men from the Florence, Alabama jail and hanged them in September 1872, according to the Montgomery Advertiser, a news dispatch, and an Opelousas Journal editorial.
Reported by: Montgomery Advertiser (reporters); news dispatch; Opelousas Journal editorial (reporters).