Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
One of eight Black men, none of them named in the report, was held in the Lenoir County jail in North Carolina when a mob took him from the jail and killed him. The Weekly Standard reported in May 1870 that the men's bodies were thrown into the Neuse River. The paper attributed the attack to the Ku Klux Klan.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took eight Black men from a Lenoir County jail, killed them and threw their bodies into the Neuse River, according to a newspaper account that attributes the attack to the Ku Klux Klan.
Reported by: news reports.