Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a brief item in The Iowa Plain Dealer of January 29, 1869, a mob took a Black man from the jail at Appling, South Carolina, and hanged him. The item gives no name for him. Its account of the death is the only source for it.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.