Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Two young Black men, both about 18 years old, were held in the jail at Nicholson, Kentucky, in early May 1867. The Springfield Weekly Republican reported that an angry crowd took them from the jail on a Saturday morning and hanged them from a tree. The paper names the enraged crowd as the cause of both deaths.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Springfield Weekly Republican (reporters).