The family of Elwood Higginbottom, a sharecropper lynched in Lafayette County in 1935, ... shot and strung up from a tree on what is now County Road 180, just off of North Lamar Boulevard.

For the Higginbottom family, there had long been a cloud of mystery surrounding the family's abrupt move to the Memphis area from Mississippi in the 1930's. ... A TREE NEAR OXFORD.

OXFORD — For 83 years, elders of the Higginbottom family held onto one secret — their patriarch, Elwood Higginbottom, was lynched in Lafayette County after killing a white man, Glen D. Roberts ...

For 83 years, elders of the Higginbottom family held onto one secret - their patriarch, Elwood Higginbottom, was lynched in Lafayette County after killing a white man, Glen D. Roberts, in self ...