Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man whose name is garbled in the OCR text of an 1886 newspaper report, apparently Steve Renfroe, was held in the jail at Livingston, Alabama. According to a report published in July 1886, a crowd surrounded the jail one night, overpowered the jailer and locked him in his room. The mob then took the man from the jail and hanged him in the jail yard.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.