Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in a Louisiana jail was taken from it by a mob of about fifty men on the night of December 28, 1879, and shot to death, according to a brief wire report in the Keowee Courier published January 8, 1880. The report describes him as one of three Black people held in the same jail who were killed that night, and gives no names for any of them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: wire report in the Keowee Courier (reporters).