Name not reported

Five Black people held in the jail near Wetumpka, Alabama, were taken from it by a mob and killed in 1898. The Martinsburg Herald reported the lynching in June 1898 as an attack on prisoners held in that jail.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

Source

• Martinsburg Herald, June 25, 1898, page 3 Martinsburg Herald, June 25, 1898