Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black person held in the jail at Rockhaven, Mississippi, was among three people held there when citizens took the prisoners out and hanged them on the afternoon of Saturday, August 22, 1874. A brief item in The People, published August 27, 1874, reports the hanging as the work of citizens. The item describes the killing as the act of a mob that took them from the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A brief 1874 news item says citizens took one of three prisoners from the Rockhaven, Mississippi jail and hanged him; it gives no further detail about the mob or the jailer.
Reported by: The People (brief news item) (reporters).