Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black person held at a jail in Mississippi was seized by a mob and hanged on the morning of Sunday, May 11, 1879, according to a Philadelphia North American report reprinted in the Daily Kennebec Journal. The report describes this as the second of two people the mob took from that jail and killed that morning. The person was in the jail's custody when the mob took them from it.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Philadelphia North American, as quoted by the Daily Kennebec Journal (reporters).