Died in jail or a lockup
One of 2 people whose names were not reported
On August 16, 1841, about 200 people gathered at the Williamstown jail in Williamstown, Kentucky, and demanded men held there from the jailer. The crowd took the men from the jail and executed them by lynch law, setting up a scaffold on the spot where they were killed. The men were held in the custody of the jail when a mob seized them, and they were killed by that mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Williamstown, Kentucky, newspaper account of the 1841 mob at the jail (reporters).