Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
This man was one of sixteen Black men held in the jail at Trenton, West Tennessee, when an armed, masked mob broke in, took them out and killed them, according to a report reprinted by The Weekly Clarion in 1874 from the Memphis Appeal. The paper called the killings a massacre. The report gives no name for him and does not say how the jailer or sheriff responded to the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Weekly Clarion, reprinting the Memphis Appeal, reports that an armed, masked mob took the men from the Trenton jail and killed them.
Reported by: The Weekly Clarion, reprinting the Memphis Appeal (reporters).