Name not reported
A telegraph report datelined Columbia, South Carolina, printed in The Daily Dispatch on December 12, 1876, said that ten Black men were taken from a sheriff's posse while being moved under guard to the jail at Anderson, South Carolina, and lynched by a group of men from Georgia. The account was dated December 10, 1876, and is the only source for the killings, so the names, ages, and places where the men died remain unknown. Officials' accounts of the deaths are not recorded in the report, and the claim has not been confirmed by other sources.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A single unnamed telegraph report datelined Columbia, S.C., says a group of Georgians lynched one of ten Black men taken from a sheriff's posse while being moved under guard to the Anderson jail.
Reported by: unnamed telegraph report datelined Columbia, S.C. (reporters).