Name not reported

A mob took five Black people from the jail at Starksville, Ga., and hanged them from the limb of a tree, according to a brief in a weekly news roundup published in January 1916. The five were held in the jail when the mob took them. The account gives no names, ages or exact date for any of them.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

Source

• The Meridian Times, January 28, 1916, page 3 The Meridian Times, January 28, 1916