Died in jail or a lockup
Charles Cannady
Charles Cannady was one of three men held in the Moss Point jail in 1874 when a crowd of white and Black residents, according to a Pascagoula newspaper reprinted in the Memphis Daily Appeal, took the keys from the jailer's house, opened the jail and cells, and hanged him from a live oak tree near the railroad. The paper reported that the men were hanged one at a time.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Pascagoula newspaper, as reprinted in the Memphis Daily Appeal, says a crowd took the keys from the jailer's house, opened the Moss Point jail and hanged Charles Cannady from a live oak tree.
Reported by: Pascagoula newspaper, as reprinted in the Memphis Daily Appeal (reporters).