Grainger, The Owensboro Messenger, July 26, 1891.

Hanged To A Tree.

A Negro Who Ran a White Man With a Knife Quietly Lynched in the Night.

Gallatin, Tenn., July 25. –People from Mitchellsville, in this county, near the Kentucky line, bring the news this morning of a lynching near that place last night. 

Yesterday afternoon Job Grainger, a negro farm hand, had a row with a white man, for whom he was threshing wheat over the Kentucky line, in the course of which he drew a knife and ran the white man from the field. Nothing more was heard of the affair until about daylight this morning, when Grainger was found hanging dead from a tree.

Nothing is known as to the identity of the lynchers, and immediate neighbors state that they heard no commotion during the night. The limb from which he was strangled is the same that was used in lynching Hicks and Taylor several years ago for barn burning.