Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to an unnamed telegraph report datelined Columbia, South Carolina, and dated December 10, 1876, ten Black men were taken from a sheriff's posse while being moved under guard to the jail at Anderson, South Carolina. The report says a group of men from Georgia lynched them. It gives no names, locations, or account of how the posse handled the mob, and the killings have not been confirmed by other sources.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: unnamed telegraph report datelined Columbia, S.C. (reporters).