Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In 1871, The Tipton Advertiser reported that ten Black people were held in a jail when several hundred Ku Klux Klan members, acting under military organization, took them out and killed them. The paper said a committee was formed to investigate the killings. The account gives no names for those killed and does not name the place or the exact date.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: investigating committee.