Name not reported
Ten Black men were reportedly being moved under guard by a sheriff's posse toward the jail at Anderson, South Carolina, in December 1876, when a group of men from Georgia took one of them and killed him, according to a telegraph report datelined Columbia, S.C. The report names none of the men and gives no locations or other details, and the account has not been confirmed by other sources. It does not say whether the posse resisted the group, gave the man up, or was overpowered.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. An unnamed telegraph report from Columbia, S.C. says a group of Georgia men lynched the prisoners after taking them from a sheriff's posse.
Reported by: unnamed telegraph report datelined Columbia, S.C. (reporters).