Died in custody
Name not reported
In 1889, The Livingston Enterprise reported that a Black man held in the custody of an officer at Columbia, Tennessee, was taken from that officer by a mob of friends of another man and strung up. According to the paper, he was cut down and carried away, and officers believed he had been lynched. The newspaper gave no name for him, so he is remembered here only as a man who died while in custody.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A news report from October 26, 1889 says a mob took a man from an officer at Columbia, Tennessee, and strung him up.
Reported by: news reporting of October 26, 1889 (reporters).