Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Eight Black men were being held at the jail in Watkinsville, Georgia, when a mob took them from the building and killed them, according to a brief national news item in The Interior Journal in June 1905. The men were in the custody of the jail at the time, and the mob that seized them lynched them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.