Name not reported
A telegraph report datelined Columbia, South Carolina, and printed in The Daily Dispatch in December 1876 said that ten Black men being moved under guard to the jail at Anderson, South Carolina, were taken from a sheriff's posse and lynched by a group of men from Georgia. The report has not been confirmed, and the figure of ten men is unverified. The people are identified only as Black men in the report, and the account of how they came to be held is left out of this memorial.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. An 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 to the Anderson jail.
Reported by: unnamed telegraph report datelined Columbia, S.C. (reporters).