Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a news dispatch published in the Charleston Daily News on January 11, 1869, a mob took an unnamed Black man from the jail at Appling, Georgia, and lynched him, along with a man named Upton and two other men. The dispatch gives his name as unknown and offers no further account of him. It does not describe how the jail or its officers responded to the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. An unattributed news report says a mob took him from the jail at Appling, Georgia, and lynched him.
Reported by: unattributed news report.