W. W. Herrington
W. W. Herrington was held in the jail at Jamestown, in Fentress County, Tennessee, in 1867. According to a Louisville Courier correspondent, reprinted in the Nashville Union and Dispatch in late September 1867, a group of people took him from the jail a few days before that report and hanged him. The account says he was given time to pray before the rope was placed around his neck, but he later said he had not been given that time. The report is secondhand, and the paper's account of the mob's actions has not been confirmed by other sources.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Louisville Courier correspondent, as reprinted in the Nashville Union And Dispatch, reported that a mob took Herrington from the Jamestown jail and hanged him.
Reported by: Louisville Courier correspondent, as reprinted in the Nashville Union And Dispatch (reporters).