Died in jail or a lockup
One of 2 people whose names were not reported
Two Black men were held at the Hohenwald jail in Hohenwald, Tennessee. In the early hours of September 28, 1916, a mob overpowered the jailer and took both men from the jail, according to a 1916 newspaper account. The paper reports that the mob bound the men to trees with wire and shot them, and that a party following the mob by automobile found their bodies.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: historical newspaper report of the Hohenwald lynching (reporters).