Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
This person was one of ten Black people held in the jail at Unionville, South Carolina, in 1871, who were taken from it by several hundred Ku-Klux Klan members and killed. According to the investigating committee's findings, as reported in the press, the killings were carried out by an organized group acting under military organization.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. According to a congressional sub-committee investigation, reported by the Washington Chronicle, several hundred Ku-Klux Klan members took ten Black people from the Unionville jail and killed them.
Reported by: congressional sub-committee investigation, as reported in the article (outside investigators); Washington Chronicle (reporters).