Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
One of sixteen Black men held in the jail at Trenton, in West Tennessee, was taken from his cell by an armed, masked mob and killed. The Weekly Clarion, reprinting the Memphis Appeal in early September 1874, reported the killings and called them a massacre. The account gives no personal details about the man himself.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Weekly Clarion, reprinting the Memphis Appeal, reports that an armed, masked mob took sixteen men from the Trenton jail and killed them.
Reported by: The Weekly Clarion (reprinting the Memphis Appeal) (reporters).