Name not reported

Three unnamed Black people were taken from the Abbeville County jail by a crowd of townspeople shortly before the end of the Civil War, according to a reminiscence column in The Abbeville Press and Banner published in 1916. The column says the crowd took them to a point near Lowndes Road and hanged them there. No names, ages or dates are given in the account, and no other source is cited for it. The column is the only account of the deaths in these sources.

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

Reported by: The Abbeville Press And Banner, reminiscence column (reporters).

Source

• The Abbeville Press And Banner, February 9, 1916, page 5 The Abbeville Press And Banner, February 9, 1916