Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man was held in the jail at Linden, Perry County, Tennessee, in August 1869. According to a Nashville dispatch printed in the Opelousas Journal that September, a mob took him from the jail and shot him dead. He was one of two Black men held there at the time.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Nashville dispatch (reporters).