Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In August 1871 The Working Christian reported, citing an investigating committee, that ten Black people held in the jail at Unionville, South Carolina, were taken from it by several hundred Ku-Klux members acting under military organization and killed. The committee's findings, as the paper printed them, describe the killings as carried out by the mob after it removed the prisoners from the jail. Each of the ten was a person held in that jail when the mob came for them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The investigating committee reported that a Ku-Klux mob took the person from the Unionville jail and killed them.
Reported by: investigating committee (as reported in the 1871 article).