Died in custody
Name not reported
Four people held in the custody of the Abbeville County sheriff in South Carolina were taken from the jail by a crowd of about three hundred and shot to death, according to a brief item in The People's Advocate on May 27, 1876. The item gives no names for the four people. It is the only account of the killings used here, so the details of how the sheriff acted beyond that are not part of this record.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.