Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black person held in a jail was taken out by a mob and hanged around July 1868, according to a brief reference in The Hickman Courier that August. The paper gives no name, age, or sex for the person, and does not name the jail or its location. The account is part of a story about a separate killing and offers no further detail on the death.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched