 Dang it! Which means, next, we need to find out as much as we can about who this Levi guy was. Okay. Over here. Right, and so Levi... We learn he was born, as best we can tell, in the 1840s, pre-Civil War, which means he could have been enslaved. But as we begin to gather documents on Levi, we start to notice misspellings. Lysam. We find his last name spelled Lysam, also Nysan, also... Hold on.