Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the jail at Coffeeville, Mississippi, was taken from the jail by a large party of masked horsemen, according to a Memphis dispatch dated August 5, 1868, printed in the Daily National Intelligencer. The mob carried him a short distance from town and hanged him. The jailer and sheriff resisted until they were overpowered.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Memphis dispatch reported that masked horsemen took a man from the Coffeeville, Mississippi jail and hanged him, and that the jailer and sheriff resisted until overpowered.
Reported by: Memphis dispatch (1868 newspaper report) (reporters).