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