Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man whose name is not recorded was held in the jail at Linden, Perry County, Tennessee, in August 1869. According to a Nashville dispatch reprinted in the Opelousas Journal, a mob took him from the jail and shot him dead. The Journal's report describes the killing as an outrage, and the man is not named in it.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Nashville dispatch reports that a mob took the second of two Black men from the Linden, Perry County jail and shot him dead.
Reported by: Nashville dispatch in a historical newspaper (reporters).