Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the jail at Appling, South Carolina, was taken from it by a mob and hanged. A brief item in The Iowa Plain Dealer, printed January 29, 1869, reported the killing. He had been in the custody of the Appling jail when the mob seized him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A brief January 1869 newspaper item reports that a mob took a Black man from the jail at Appling and hanged him.
Reported by: news reports.