Adam Gripson

Adam Gripson, a Black man, was held in a Louisiana jail in December 1892. A news dispatch published in the Indiana State Sentinel in January 1893 reports that a mob took him from the jail along with another man, Lewis Fox. The mob hanged the two men from a beam of a shed in the courthouse yard.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A news dispatch in the Indiana State Sentinel reports that a mob took Adam Gripson from a Louisiana jail and hanged him from a shed beam in the courthouse yard.

Reported by: news dispatch published in the Indiana State Sentinel (reporters).

Source

• The Indiana State Sentinel, January 4, 1893, page 2 The Indiana State Sentinel, January 4, 1893