Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Ten Black men were reportedly 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, according to a telegraph report datelined Columbia, S.C., dated December 10, 1876. The report was printed in The Daily Dispatch on December 12, 1876, and the account is unconfirmed. No names have been given for the men.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: unnamed telegraph report datelined Columbia, S.C. (reporters).