Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black woman was taken from the jail at Shubuta, Mississippi, by a mob and hanged from the girders of a bridge over the Chickasawhay River, according to information received in Mobile and reported by The Monroe Journal in December 1918. She was one of four Black people hanged there in that account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Reports received in Mobile say a mob took her from the Shubuta, Mississippi jail and hanged her from a bridge girder over the Chickasawhay River.
Reported by: information received in Mobile (reporters).