Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the Union County jail was taken from custody by a mob and killed, according to a short item in The South Kentuckian of July 6, 1880. The paper does not give his name or the date of the lynching. Its only other name, Chris Smith, is linked to a separate killing earlier that week.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The South Kentuckian reported that a mob took a Black man from a Union County jail and lynched him.
Reported by: The South Kentuckian (reporters).