Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
He was one of sixteen Black men held in the jail at Trenton, West Tennessee, when an armed, masked mob took the prisoners from the jail and killed them. This account comes from a report reprinted by The Weekly Clarion from the Memphis Appeal in September 1874. The paper described the killings as a massacre.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: The Weekly Clarion, reprinting the Memphis Appeal (reporters).