A history of Mississippi : from the discovery of the great river, Part 39

Author: Lowry, Robert, 1830-1910; McCardle, William H
Publication date: 1891
Publisher: Jackson, Miss. : R.H. Henry & Co.
Number of Pages: 674


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REPRESENTATIVES.


David Davis, Wm. Gardner, Zach. Lea.


Richard Hurst, W. Jackson, Burton.


John Lowry, James Jones.


Francis Graves, Richard Hurst, Jas. Jones.


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1825 John R. Brown.


1826 Chas. C. Slocumb.


1827 Thos. Torrence.


1828 Thos. Torrence.


1829 Wm. Jackson.


1830 Wm. Jackson.


1831 Wm. Jackson.


1833 Archibald Smith.


1835 David Davis.


1836 David Davis.


F. C. Talbert, John Wall.


1837 Jehu Wall.


1838-'39 Jehu Wall.


1840 Jehu Wall.


J. J. Graves, Solomon Weathersby.


1841-'42-'43 Jehu Wall.


T. J. Stewart, Jas M. Smiley.


1844 Jehu Wall.


J. M. Smiley.


1846 John Wall.


Jas. M. Smiley, T. M. Rogers. David W. Hurst.


1848 E McCoy Davis.


1850 E. McCoy Davis.


Jehu Wall, F. C. Talbert.


1852 J. M. Nelson.


Jehu Wall, Jas. M. Gallent.


1854 J. M. Nelson.


E. L. Tarver.


1856-'57 Franklin Love.


Jas. M. Gallent, N. L. Huff.


1858 Franklin Love.


1859-'60-'61 G. H. Gordon.


1861-'62 G. H. Gordon.


Moses Jackson


Geo. F. Webb.


A. Parker.


Reuben Kendrick.


Reuben Kendrick.


B. F. Johns, Jas E. Jagers.


Wm. F. Love, E. L. Tarver.


Wm. F. Love, B. F. Johns.


F. A. McLain, C. Byrd.


Wm. F. Love, Geo. M. Govan.


W. B. Raiford, J. M. Bates.


Polk Talbert, S. M. Simmons.


1890 J. H. Jones.


Richard Hurst, Francis Graves, S Weath- ersby.


Francis Graves, E. Smith, S. Weathersby. S. Weathersby.


Edmund Smith, Samuel B. Marsh


Samuel B Marsh. Francis Graves.


Francis Graves, David Pemble.


Edmund Smith, David Pemble.


David Pemble, Wm. Vannorman.


Wm. Vannorman, David Pemble.


F. C. Talbert, John Wall.


Edmund Smith, J. J. Graves.


F. H. Sleeper.


C. E. Frith.


· 1865-'66'-67 Moses Jackson. 1870-'71 Wm. H. Gibbs. 1872-'73 Wm H. Gibbs.


1874-'75 G. W. White.


1876-'77 G. W. White.


1878 Moses Jackson. 1880 Moses Jackson.


1882 Thos. V. Noland.


1884 Thos. V. Noland.


1886 Wm. F. Love.


1888 Wm. F. Love.


Polk Talbert, Theo. McKnight.


ATTALA COUNTY


Was established December 23d, 1833, and it is said was named in honor of an Indian maiden of the Choctaw tribe, who committed suicide because of the death of her lover. Among the early set- tlers of the county were Hosea Upsy, Eli and Levi Carter, Wm. S. Ross, Jas. N. Taylor, Frank Rutherford, Presley Williams, Rolin Suggs, Bayliss Oldham, John, J. P. and Wm. R. Irving, Wm. Bell, John Short, Thos. Rogers, Wm. and Allen Dodd, Abner and Jonathan Armstrong, John and Wm. Allen, Joseph. Ivy, Chapin Smith, Asa and Noah Day, Zebediah Guess, William, James and Isom Cole, Wm. Tipton, Oliver M. Simpson, Wm. T. Irish, Doc. Hughes, John Jeffreys, Wm. and Stephen Calcote, Nick. Fisher, the Carsons, John Biggs, Wm. Ellington, Thos. Potter, the Stapletons, Gordon D. Boyd, Wm. Exum, Zachariah


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Rector, the McCarters, Jack Davis, Gray Simms, Dr. H. J. Mun- son, John Stanard, Jas. Fletcher, S. N. Gilleland, John Harvey, Jas. Lily, Chas. Fuller, Alex. Mabry, Thos. Beeks, Daniel Mc- Millan and Henry Musslewhite. A little later came J. A. P. and Chas. H. Campbell, brothers, and afterwards widely known law- yers. The elder, Judge J. A. P. Campbell, was elected to the Leg- islature about the time he reached his majority ; he was again elected in 1859, and was chosen Speaker of the House, the duties of which he discharged with great acceptability. In 1861, he was elected to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America. After the commencement of hostilities, he enlisted in the Confederate service and was made Lieutenant- Colonel of the Fortieth Regiment, and remained with his com- mand until disabled by wounds; upon the restoration of peace he was chosen Circuit Judge of the district in which he re- sided, and against his inclinations and wishes was re-elected without opposition. In 1876 he was appointed by Governor Stone to the Supreme Bench, and re-appointed in 1884, by Gov- ernor Lowry. Judge Campbell has been on the circuit and supreme benches for more than twenty years, and it is no dis- paragement to others to say that no abler man ever adorned the Supreme Bench of Mississippi. The younger brother, Judge Chas. H. Campbell, is a lawyer of ability, and has been the presiding circuit judge of his district for a number of years, is a genial gentleman and acceptable to the people whom he has long served. The early settlers of this county came from the States of Alabama, North and South Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee. Some of them settled in the county on their return from the war in 1812-'15 Kosciusko, the county site, in near the geographi- cal center of the State, a handsomely located little town, of prob- ably fifteen hundred inhabitants. It was named for Gen. Thad- deus Kosciusko, the Polish patriet. The town has an excellent public school, conducted by Prof. W. D. Berry, a native of Ran- kin county, and a graduate of our State University. The lead- ing religious denominations have good churches, and well at- tended. Rev. Dr. J. H. Alexander has been pastor of the Pres- byterian church since 1855, and to his godly life and consecrated ministry much of the high moral and religious culture of the community is due. He is the father of Rev. W. A. Alexander, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Canton, and of C. H. Alex- ander, Esq., a leading attorney of Jackson. The other towns are · Ethel, named for a daughter of Capt. S. B. McConnico ; Sallis,


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named for Dr. James Sallis, and McCool, named in honor of Hon. Jas. F. McCool. The Aberdeen branch of the Illinois Central Rail- road from Durant to Aberdeen passes through the county, a dis- tance of probably of forty miles. The principal streams are Big Black river, Long, Aprokta, Yockanookana, Zilpha, Turkey, and Lobutcha creeks. Attala, while not a rich county, is healthy and prosperous, and nowhere will be found a more hospitable and well-to-do population. There are in the county 175,249 acres of cleared lands. The average value of which is $1.92. The total value of cleared lands, including in corporated towns is $772,313. The population of Attala as shown by the census of 1890 : Whites, 12,666 ; Colored, 9,523. Total, 22,189.


SENATORS.


1836


1837 Gordon I). Boyd.


Wm. Dodd.


1838-'39 Gordon Boyd.


Wm. Eakin.


1840-'41 Samuel N. Gilleland.


1842-'43 Samuel N. Gilleland.


1844 John D. Boyd.


M. S. Teague.


S. N. Gilleland.


1848 Henry Gray.


1850 Samuel N. Gilleland.


1852 George Pope.


1854 George Pope.


1856-'57 Samuel N. Gilleland.


1858 T. L Thompson.


1859-'60-'61 George Huie.


1861-'62 George Huie


1865-'66 S. W. Land.


Jos. M. Thompson, Alex. Mabry.


R. Boyd, Jason Niles.


R. Boyd, John C. Lucas. Wm. Allen, S. W. Land.


James M. Boyd, C H. Campbell.


James M Boyd, C. H. Campbell.


David T. Guyton, J. K. Schrock.


Frederick M. Glass, H. C. Niles.


Frederick M. Glass, C. L. Anderson.


1882 Thomas L. Cooper.


1884 David T. Guyton.


1886 David T. Guyton.


1888 Pres Groves.


1890 Pres Groves.


REPRESENTATIVES.


Wm. Dodd.


E. H. Sanders.


J. T. McAfee, S. Durham.


J. A. P. Campbell, J B. Hemphill.


S. Gilleland, W. D. Roy.


S. Gilleland and Hastings D. Palmer.


Hastings D Palmer, J. R. Hemphill.


J. A. P. Campbell, Hastings D. Palmer.


E. M. Wells, Silas H. Clarke.


1870 W. S. Rushing.


1871 W. S Rushing.


1872-'73 James S. Smythe.


1874-'75 James S. Smythe J. G. Henderson.


1876-'77 S. T. Oldham.


1878 S. T. Oldham.


1880 Thomas L. Cooper.


D. L. Smythe, James F. McCool.


James F. McCool, Wiley Sanders.


W. A. Haden, H. C. Niles.


A. W. Skinner, R. B. Sanders.


J. P. Allen, L. S Terry.


BENTON COUNTY


Was established July 15th, 1870, carved out of the counties of Marshall and Tippah. It was named in honor of Col. Samuel Benton, who was killed at the head of his command during the war between the States. Ashland, the county site, was named for the home of the great commoner, Henry Clay. This county


Shelman Durham.


John D. Boyd.


1846 George Hicks.


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having been organized since the war, the names of many of the early settlers will necessarily be found in the list of those men- tioned in Marshall and Tippah.


Gov. Joseph Matthews, the late Judge A. M. Clayton, and Col. D. B. Wright, all distinguished citizens, resided in the territory now embraced in Benton county. The late Wm. Hull, an impul- sive and generous gentleman, also resided in what is now Ben- ton county. There may be mentioned in this connection, the numerous family of McDonalds, of whom there were several different branches not related. The most widely known repre- sentative of this family was Judge J. M. McDonald, a gentleman of high character, who dispensed at his home a most generous hospitality. He was the father of Hon. Will T. McDonald, who was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1890. Hon. W. A. McDonald, a representative of a different family, has served in both branches of the Legislature. Hon. B. T. Kim- brough was the first lawyer to locate at the county site of Ben- ton, and the first Representative in the Legislature. He is an ex- cellent lawyer and is now serving his second term as chancellor of the district in which he resides.


The towns in addition to the county site are Lamar, Michigan City and Hickory Flat.


The principal streams are Wolf and Tippah rivers, with quite a number of smaller streams.


Two railroads pass through the borders of the county, the Illi- nois Central and Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham.


Much of the land in Benton is most excellent and productive. The number of acres of cleared land in the county is 107,148. The average value of which is $2.37 per acre. Total value in- cluding incorporated towns is $266,244.


The population as shown by the census return of 1890 is, whites, 5,578 ; colored, 5,007 ; total 10,585.


SENATORS.


REPRESENTATIVES.


1872-'73 E. M. Alexander.


B. T. Kimbrough.


1874-'75 Clarence Cullens.


H. A. Cook.


Wm. A. Crum.


1878 Chas. C. Terry.


J. Waverly Smith.


1880 J. H. Dalton.


R. E. Taylor.


1882 J. H. Dalton


WVm. Ayres.


1884 W. A. Boyd.


W. A. McDonald, Jno. Y. Murry.


WV. A. McDonald, W. T. McDonald.


1888 W. A. McDonald.


1890 W. A. McDonald.


B. O. Simpson, Allen Talbot.


1876-'77 Chas. C. Terry.


1886 W. A. Boyd.


H. P. Maxwell, Jas. C. Harris. -


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BOLIVAR COUNTY


Was established February 9th, 1836, and named in honor of the great liberator of South America, General Simon Bolivar. The commissioners appointed to organize the county were William B. Cook, Peter Wilkinson, Hiram Miller, J. McGuire, John W. Bowles and Francis Patterson.


The first court held in the county was presided over by Judge Frederick W. Huling. Andrew S. Dodd was clerk and W. J. Longacre, sheriff.


Joseph McGuire was a member of the first grand jury empan- eled in the county. Some of his descendants still reside in the county, one of whom, A. G. McGuire, is a lawyer of character and standing ; another, T. R. McGuire, is clerk of the chancery court.


Two other members of the same grand jury, were Isaac Hud- son and C. J. Field. The former acquired large property, and held several positions of trust and honor; the latter was a Ken- tuckian, connected by birth and marriage with the Clay family of that State, and a gentleman of high character and integrity.


Among the first settlers of the county may also be named, John Kirk, Isaac Wilkinson and Dr. Maul Rowland, and Charles Clarke, referred to elsewhere. His only son, Fred. A. Clarke, Esq., is a prominent lawyer of that county, and is planting on the farm developed by his honored father.


Many of the early settlers were men of marked intelligence and possessed in an eminent degree the characteristics that gave assurances of a high grade of civilization.


Some sixteen years after the organization of the county, the leading citizens were Peter B. Starke, who served in both branches of the Legislature, and afterwards a Brigadier-General in the Confederate army, Governor Charles Clarke, before men- tioned, William Vick, Miles H. McGehee, John C. Burrus, Thomas Manly, L. G. Galloway, Dickson Bell, a nephew of the Whig candidate for President, Guilford Torry, M. D. Shelby, J. J. Ross and F. A. Montgomery ; the latter was a Colonel in the Confederate service, and has served his county with distinction in the Legislature, and now a prominent member of the bar at Rosedale, the county site; John Stafford and G. W. Arnold. The three last named, and Isaac Wilkinson and Dr. Rowland, are the only living white men among the early settlers now residing in the county.


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Some of the good women of those times are still living, and were the honored wives of the pioneers of the county, among them, Mrs. John Kirk, Mrs. John C. Burrus, Mrs. Joseph Sillers, Mrs. Lightfoot, Mrs. F. A. Montgomery and Mrs. Anna Baldwin -the three last mentioned sisters of Governor Clark.


The members of the bar are prosperous and stand deservedly high in their profession.


There are two lines of railroad running parallel with the river from north to south, and another to the Mississippi river at Huntington through the southern part of the county. Another road commencing at Rosedale and intended to go to some point on the Illinois Central will be completed to Bogue Phalia very soon.


The Mississippi river is the Western boundary of the county. Sunflower river touches the county on its eastern border. Other important streams and bayous in the county are Hushpuckena, Deer Creek, Lakes Beulah, Bolivar, Vermillion and Porter.


Bolivar county now embraces an area of 843 square miles, and is one among the largest cotton producing counties in the State.


Rosedale, the county site, is a prosperous and attractive town, with superior public buildings, and with banking and commercial facilities to meet the demands of trade. The people are thrifty and cultured.


Other towns in the county are Benoit, Bolivar, Huntington, Shaw, Cleveland, Shelby, Alligator, Duncan, Australia, Con- cordia and Beulah, all of which are growing and prosperous.


Bolivar county has 108,553 acres of cleared land. Average value per acre as rendered to the assessor, $11.91. Total value of cleared lands, including incorporated towns, $1,389,889.


The population as shown by the census of 1890 : Whites, 3,220 ; colored, 26,734; total, 29,964.


SENATORS.


REPRESENTATIVES.


1837 Jas. D. Hallam.


John M. Henderson.


1838 Jas. D. Hallam.


B. M. Hinds.


1839- Walker.


B. M. Hinds.


1840 Alfred Cox.


C. H. Fields.


1841 Jas. M. Matlock.


C. H. Fields.


1842-'43-'44 Andrew Knox.


J. P. Brown.


1846 Felix Labauve.


J. H. Carson.


1848 J. J. B. White.


Jas. B. Smith.


1850 J. J. B. White.


Peter B. Starke,


1852-'54 W. L. Johnson.


Peter B. Starke.


1856 Peter B. Starke.


Chas. Clark.


1857-'58 Peter B Starke. Isaac Hudson.


IS59-'60-'61 Peter B. Starke. Chas. Clark.


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1861-,62 Peter B. Starke.


. 1865-'66-'67 W. W. S. Yerger. 1870-'71 A. S. Dowd.


1872-'73-'74 C. M. Bowles.


1874-'75 Geo. C. Smith.


1876'-77 Jas R. Chalmers.


1878 G. W. Gayles.


1880-82 G. W. Gales.


1884 G. W. Gayles. 1886 G. W. Gayles.


1888 John W. Cutrer.


1890 John W. Cutrer.


Miles H. Magehee. Chas. R. Mayson.


C. M. Bowles.


G. W. Gayles, M. B. Sullivan.


M. B. Sullivan, G. W. Gayles.


Green Clay, John I. J. Shelby.


Green Clay, F. M. Libby.


F. A. Montgomery, J. H. Bufford.


F. A. Montgomery, Perry Peyton.


Walter Sillers, W. L. Lowe.


J. E. Halbert, G. W. Huntley.


O. L. Shelby, L. C. Moore.


CHAPTER XXIV.


CALHOUN COUNTY


W AS established March 8th, 1852, and was named in honor of the great South Carolina statesman, John C. Calhoun. The early settlers of the county were Mr. McCrory, who was the first Representative in the Legislature from the county. The families of Wilson, Brantley, Bauchman, Tedford, Ivy, Church, McDonald, Wheeler, Brasher, (one of whom, L. Brasher, repres- ented the county in the State Senate in 1858), Bagwell, Clarke, Enochs, Collum, McKnight, Du Berry, Miller, Armstrong, Beadles, Bolands, Hamptons, Provine, Fox, Shaw, Vance, Dun- can, Duff, McLarty, Lamar, Hardon, Walker, White, Martin, Isaac A. Duncan and A. M. Reasons.


The towns are Pittsboro, the county site, Banner, Sarepta and Slate Springs. The streams are Yalobusha and Loosa-Scoona rivers, Persimmon, Kitta-Hatta, Sabougla, Shoot-us-a-spear, Top. achaw and Beaver Creeks.


Calhoun county has 67,799 acres of cleared land, the average value of which is $6.96 per acre. Total value, including incor- porated towns, $517,639.


The population of the county as shown by the census of 1890 : Whites, 11,188 ; colored, 3,500; total 14,688.


SENATORS.


REPRESENTATIVES.


1854 H. Allen, Jr. -McCrory.


1856 H. Allen, Jr.


J. G. Burney.


1857 C. H. Guy.


J. G. Burney.


1858 L. Brasher.


Isaac A. Duncan.


1959-'60-'61 L Brasher.


I. A. Duncan, A, M. Reasons.


1861-'62 J. L. Davis.


1865-'66'-67 M. D. L. Stephens.


1870-'71 H. L. Duncan.


A. T. Roane.


1872-'73 H. L. Duncan.


H. C. Horton, A. T. Koane.


1874-'75 P. R. Thornton.


H. C. Horton, D. W. Rogers.


1876-'77 P. R. Thornton.


Isaac T. Blount, D. W. Rogers.


Wm. T. Young, A. T. Roane.


1880 D. W Rogers.


1882 Wm. A Roane.


T. M. Stevens, J. J. Ross. R. N. Provine, J. L. Collins.


1884 Wm. A. Roane.


G. W. Howard, D. W. Rogers.


1886 S. M. Ross.


J. I. Ballinger, W. T. Young.


1888 S. M. Ross.


E. R. Enochs, J. W. Lamar.


ISSO J. W. Lamar.


Joseph Griffin, I. T. Blount.


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A. Woodward, F. G. Enochs. C. A. Lewers.


·


1878 D. W. Rogers.


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CARROLL COUNTY


Was established December 22d, 1833, and named in honor of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, one of the immortal signers of the Declaration of Independence. It ranks as a fair county of lands.


On the 25th of December, 1833, the Legislature passed an act authorizing Edmund G. Whitehead, James Collins, Titus How- ard, Absalom Herring and William T. Collins to organize Car- roll county.


Among the early settlers of this county were Greenwood Le- flore, chief of the Choctaw Nation, and after the removal of his people west of the Mississippi river, he served his district in the State Senate. Wm. Leflore, Col. Joseph Drake, Col. Neil, Judge Cothran, Judge Shattuck, Samuel Harp, James Wellons, Wm. Saunders, Jonathan Ray, Joe Ray, Alexander Ray, Captain John A. Binford, father of Col. James R. Binford, former State Sena- tor from the counties of Carroll and Montgomery, William Hem- ingway, a leading citizen of the county, who served as a member of the Legislature, was a delegate to the Constitutional Conven- tion of 1865, and appointed by the Convention with Hons. E. J. Goode and R. S. Hudson as a committee to frame laws for the consideration of the Legislature, which was to assemble that fall. He was also the father of Hon. W. L. Hemingway, who was a delegate to the Convention of 1868, and former State Treasur- er for fourteen years, and of Judge Wilson Hemingway, now on the Supreme Court bench of Arkansas, and of J. B. H. Heming- way, a well-read lawyer, and for years one of the law Reporters for the State, Wilson Hemingway, former Secretary of State, General Collins Hemingway, Major E. F. Kennedy, John P. Mar- shall, B. F. Marshall, Wm. G. Herring, Dr. J. A. J. Askew, Judge Wm. Y. Collins, Col. : Wm. Boothe, Mr. Durham, T. T. Young, the father-in-law of Senator J. Z. George, John C. Mc- Carthy, J. W. S. Merrill, formerly member of the Legislature, Judge Marmaduke Kimbrough, Thomas Kimbrough, John Hall, Judge Wm. Whitehead, Reddits, Edmund G. Whitehead, J. Z. George, member of the Secession Convention of 1861, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, author of George's Digest, and twice elected as United States Senator, Joshua Williams, Henry Mathews, Steven Johnson, Allen Shankey, Wm. Gallaspie, J. A. Lundy, Dr. C. M. Vaiden, nephew of Hon. Cowles Mead, who was at one time Secretary of the Mississippi Territory, and during the protracted absence of the Governor, acted as Governor,


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Thomas Heslip, Robert Crop, Liddells, Dr. Dabney Lipscomb, Nat. Clarke, Jones Stanley, Major James Money, Pearson Money, father of Hon. H. D. Money, who served several terms in Con- gress, Arnolds, Benjamin Roach, Jones Mitchell, C. P. Shep perd, Elisha and Reuben Mullins, Annias and Joel H. Pate.


Chief Greenwood Leflore, of this county, was a man of posi- tive character, self-assertive, and when once fixed in his opinions hard to move. He formed the acquaintance of General Jackson, before he was President, and admired him greatly.


During the General's service as President, an Indian Agent, Mr. M- -, was appointed for the Choctaws, and his official relations brought him frequently in contact with Chief Leflore, who finally became suspicious of the agent, and with that charac- teristic frankness of the Chief, he sought his removal. The agent affected innocence and repelled the charge of corruption and misconduct. The Chief was firm, and finally applied to the President for his removal, signifying his readiness to make good the charges by respectable and disinterested witnesses. The President denied the application. The reiteration of the charges, and further refusal of the President, carried the Chief to Wash- ington City to make the demand in person. On his arrival he repaired to the White House, and without circumlocution de- manded the removal of the agent, alleging misconduct and dis- honesty, and his readiness to submit the proof. The President, somewhat annoyed with the Chief's persistency, said : "I, Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, know Mr. - to be an honest man." The Chief drew himself up to his full height, and with his keen, searching black eye steadily fixed on the old hero, said : "I, Greenwood Leflore, Chief of the Choctaw Nation, know M- - to to be a -d rascal."


The President was so impressed with the Chief's frank manner, that he took him by the hand and said : "Greenwood, we have long been friends, and as I often said to juries, when a practicing lawyer, and while on the bench, 'let justice be done between the parties ;' that I now say to you, justice shall be done in this in- stance." A few months later, the agent took his departure, and a brief letter from the President to Chief Leflore informed him that the removal was made.


Doctor P. W. Peeples, a gentleman of ability, culture and pleasant manners, was a surgeon in the Confederate service, and is in the broadest sense a man of affairs. He is prominently


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connected with all enterprises having for their object the pro- gress and prosperity of Jackson, the city of his residence. Is now President of the Jackson Bank.


George W. Williamson, father of Judge Robert W. Williamson, a lawyer of ability, who served two terms as Chancellor, is now on the Circuit Court bench in the river district.


The towns are Carrollton, the county site, Vaiden, Black Hawk and Shongalo.


The principal streams are Big Black river, Coila, Abattapooda, Hays, Pettacona, Big Sand, Palucia, Teoctalia and Abyacha creeks.


The railroads are the Illinois Central and Georgia Pacific.


The lands on the Big Black river, which form the southeastern boundary of the county, are rich and productive, and so are the creek and branch lands. The hills yield less, but with thorough cultivation, good crops are made.


There are 197,822 acres of cleared land in the county, the average value per acre of which, as rendered to the assessor, is $4.12. The total value of cleared lands in the county, including incorporated towns, is $980,678.00.


The population as shown by the census report of 1890 : Whites, 8,075 ; colored, 10,698 ; total, 18,773.


SENATORS.


REPRESENTATIVES.


1835


1836


1837 Wm. M. Brown.


1838-39 Wm. M. Brown.


1840 Greenwood Leflore.


1841 Greenwood Leflore.


1842 Greenwood Leflore.


1843 Greenwood Leflore.


1844 Wm. Booth.


Abraham Hardy.


1846 Wm. Booth.


1848 B. Kennedy.


1850 B. Kennedy.


1852 C. F. Hemingway.


1854 C. F. Hemingway.


W. B. Helm, C. C. Hight, Wm. J. Strong.


1856 Wm. Cothran.


J. S. Johnson, A. Reeves, S. Hawkins,


1857 G. F. Neil.


J. S. Johnson, A. Reeves, S. Hawkins.


James P. Scales.


J. P. Scales, J. M Hamilton.


W. J. Strong, J. P. Scales.


J. M. Liddell, J. W. S. Merrill.


W. L. Hemingway, J. C. Mckenzie, H. Pitt- man.


1872-73 Stephen Johnson.


1874 W. H. Parker. 1874-75-W. H. Parker.


1876 M. H. Tuttle.


Greenwood Leflore.


John L. Irwin.


John L. Irwin,


Benjamin Kennedy, Joseph Drake.


C. F. Hemingway, John A. Binford.


John A. Binford, John M. Maury.


John A. Binford, B Kennedy.


Jas. Liddell, J. Whitmore, G. F. Neil. C. F. Hemingway, C. M. Vaiden, G. F. Neil.


H. H. Southworth, Jas. S. Johnson, W. A. Strong.


1858-59 G. F. Neil.


1860-61 G. F. Neil.


1861-62 G. F. Neil.


. 1865-66-67 John A. Binford. 1870-71 Stephen Johnson.


W. H. Armistead, F. R. Streater.


M. H. Tuttle, Geo. Washington.


M. H. Tuttle, Geo. Washington.


H. H. Southworth, C. M. Vaiden.


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HISTORY OF MISSISSIPPI.


1877 M. H. Tuttle.


1878 W. D. Peery.


1880 W. D. Peery.


1882 Jas. M. Liddell.


1884 Jas. M. Liddell.


1886 Jas. R. Binford.


1888 Jas. R. Binford.


1890 L. M. Southworth.


H. HI. Southworth, Jas. M. Liddell. Jas. M. Liddell, Jr., Benjamin T. Marshall.


T. H. Somerville, H. Talbert.


H. C. Williamson, C. B. Turnipseed.


H. C. Williamson, J. S. Johnson.


H. C. Williamson, L. M. Southworth.


T. W. Sullivan, L. M. Southworth.


T. W. Sullivan, E. L. Conger.




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