Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Zed Floyd

Jail at Wetumpka, Elmore County, Alabama

Zed Floyd, who was Black, was held at the jail in Wetumpka, Alabama. According to a brief wire item in The Evening Bulletin, published in September 1900, a mob took them from the jail. The mob hanged them.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

News report