Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to an 1871 account in the Tipton Advertiser, several hundred Ku Klux Klan members, acting under military organization, took ten Black people from a jail and killed them. The ten were held in that jail when the mob came for them. A committee was later set up to investigate the killings.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: committee investigating the killings.