Levi Grandberry
According to a Pascagoula newspaper reprinted in the Memphis Daily Appeal, Levi Grandberry was one of three men held in the Moss Point jail in 1874. The paper reported that a crowd of white and Black residents took the keys from the jailer's house, opened the jail and cells, and took him out. They hanged him from a live oak tree near the railroad. Before he died, the paper reported, he asked that letters be written to his friends.
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 jail and hanged him from a live oak tree.
Reported by: Pascagoula newspaper, as reprinted in the Memphis Daily Appeal (reporters).