Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to an 1882 newspaper account, a Black man held in the jail at Brown's Station, Alabama, was taken from the jail by a mob of about forty masked men and lynched. He was one of two Black men held there at the time. The newspaper spelled his name in a garbled form, so his name cannot be confirmed from this account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.