Died in custody
Name not reported
One of two brothers surnamed Jenkins, he was Black and was among four Black men held in the custody of a deputy sheriff near Van Cleave when a mob took them from the deputy and killed them. Newspaper reporting from March 1908 describes the killings as lynchings. The men's first names and the exact date of their deaths are not recorded in this account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.