Died in jail or a lockup
One of 4 people whose names were not reported
On Friday, January 15, 1869, a mob took this man from the jail at Appling, along with three other men, and killed him, according to the Springfield Weekly Republican. He was held at the Appling jail when the mob seized him. The paper reported the lynching as a killing carried out by the mob after it took him from the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched