Name not reported
According to an unnamed telegraph report datelined Columbia, South Carolina, and dated December 10, 1876, ten Black men were being moved under a sheriff's posse's guard to the jail at Anderson, South Carolina, when a group of men from Georgia took them and lynched them. The report, printed in The Daily Dispatch on December 12, 1876, gives no names, locations, or other details of the men or the killings. The account was not confirmed by any other source, so what happened to each man, and whether the posse resisted, remains unknown.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. An unnamed telegraph report datelined Columbia, S.C. says a group of Georgians lynched him after a sheriff's posse took him from custody while moving him to the Anderson jail.
Reported by: unnamed telegraph report datelined Columbia, S.C. (reporters).