Who is the grandmother to the famous poet from Joplin Missouri?
Lewis Sheridan Leary Lewis Sheridan Leary (March 17, 1835 – October 20, 1859), an African-American harnessmaker from Oberlin, Ohio, joined John Brown's unsuccessful raid on Harpers Ferry, where he was killed. He was the first husband of Mary Patterson. By her second marriage to Charles Henry Langston, she became the future maternal grandmother of poet Langston Hughes.
Rosa Vertner Jeffrey Rosa Vertner Griffith Johnson Jeffrey (1828-1894) was an American poet and novelist from the U.S. state of Mississippi. She was the first southern woman whose literary work attracted attention throughout the US.