Name not reported
A Black man was held in the jail at Troy, Kentucky. According to a correspondent for the Maysville Eagle, reprinted in the Worcester Daily Spy, a mob battered down the jail doors on New Year's Day 1859, took him into the jail yard, and burned him at a stake while a crowd looked on. A later item in the same paper described a mob of more than a thousand people burning a man chained to a stake at Troy in early January. Both accounts describe the same killing.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Maysville Eagle correspondent, as reprinted by the Worcester Daily Spy, reported that a mob battered down the Troy jail doors, took the man out and burned him at a stake.
Reported by: correspondent of the Maysville Eagle, reprinted by the Worcester Daily Spy (reporters).