Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In 1880, a mob took five people from the jail in Nashville, Tennessee, and lynched them on the veranda of the courthouse, according to a short 1906 newspaper column recalling those events. The column gives no names for the five and does not say whether jail officers resisted the mob or handed the prisoners over. Nothing else about the individuals is recorded in this account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.