Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man recorded in the newspaper only as Tom was one of three men held in the county jail at Lebanon, Kentucky, in November 1866. The Louisville Journal's correspondent reported that a mob took him from the dungeon after he answered when called by name, and that the three men were marched out together to Grimes's Hill. The Chicago Tribune reported that a mob of about two hundred people took one of the three men from the jail on Saturday night, November 24, and hanged him. Both accounts say the three men were hanged on Grimes's Hill.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Louisville Journal correspondent (reporters).