Name not reported
In 1871, according to a congressional sub-committee's investigation as reported in the Washington Chronicle and the Yorkville Enquirer, this Black man was one of ten people taken from the jail at Unionville, South Carolina, by several hundred Ku-Klux Klan members and killed. The committee said the killings were carried out by an organized group acting under military organization. The Working Christian reported the same investigation and the same count of ten killed.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The investigating committee reports that a Ku-Klux mob took the victim from the Unionville jail and killed him, one of ten Black people killed that way.
Reported by: the investigating committee; Washington Chronicle (reporters).