Official and statistical register of the state of Mississippi, 1908 v. 3, Part 21

Author: Mississippi. Dept. of Archives and History
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: Jackson
Number of Pages: 916


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WILLIAM ARTHUR WHITE, of Dry Run, was born December 3, 1869, at Burnsville, Miss., the son of James Francis White and wife, Nancy (Barnhill) White. His father was of English parentage, but came to this country when young and served in the Confederate Army from 1861 to 1865; his mother was a native of Alabama. Mr. White received a common school education only, and has always followed the occupation of a farmer. He is a Democrat, and has been a member of the Executive Committee of his county since 1891; has been a licensed preacher in the Methodist Protestant Church since 1888, an elder since 1901, and was President of the North Mississippi Conference in 1903; was elected to the House of Representatives November 5, 1907. He is also a member of the Masonic Order and of the Wood- men of the World. Mr. White was married June 17, 1888, to Alice Rider, daughter of William Rider and wife, Mattie Rider, of Booneville. Mr. and Mrs. White have seven chil- dren: James, Kate, Willie, Robert, Vandiver, Bell and Earl.


QUITMAN COUNTY.


JOE BOON STONE, of Belen, was born October 29, 1875, at Como, Panola County, Miss., the son of Samuel Callaway Stone and wife, Bettie Douglass (Partee) Stone. He obtained his early education in the public schools of his county and later took a four years' course at Searcy College, Arkansas. He secured his professional education at Vander- bilt University, where he took his degree of M. D. in 1901.


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During the same year he commenced medical practice at Belen, Quitman County, and is still thus engaged. Dr. Stone has been Superintendent of Education of Quitman County, 1903-1907, and was elected to the House of Representatives November 5, 1907. He is a Democrat, a member and steward of the Methodist Church; also belongs to the Masonic Order, the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is unmarried.


RANKIN COUNTY.


ALBERT GALLATIN NORRELL, of Plain, was born .December 18, 1845, in Rankin County, Miss., the son of Thomas Norman Norrell and wife, Frances (Parker) .Norrell. His paternal ancestors came from Ireland to South Carolina, settling first in the Edgefield district. The name was origi- nally O'Norrell. His maternal line came from England to the Jamestown (Va.) settlement among the first emigrants. His father was a man of note, a planter, a Confederate sol- dier, a member of the Board of Supervisors and of the Legis- lature in 1880. Mr. Norrell attended Richland Academy in Rankin County; entered the University of Mississippi, but did not graduate; went to Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., to study law and took his Bachelor's degree in 1876. He practiced his profession in Yazoo County from 1877 to 1887, when he left Mississippi and went to Utah, taking up his residence in Salt Lake City. He was Mayor of Sartartia, Miss., and member of the Mississippi Legislature during the sessions of 1882, 1884 and 1886; after going West was Chairman of the Utah Commission, 1895 and 1896; Judge of Third Judicial District, State of Utah, 1896-1900; and for four years was Secretary of the Utah Democratic State Committee. He is a Democrat; a member of the M. E. Church, South, but has never belonged to any secret order except the Ku Klux Klan. He is not married. He was elected to the House of Representatives November 5, 1907.


WILLIAM DAVID HESLEP, of Pelahatchie, was born May 18, 1858, at Trenton, Smith County, and is the son of William Henry Heslep and his wife, Sarah (Moore) Heslep. - His paternal ancestors came from Kentucky; his father was a pioneer physician, practicing medicine for more than forty years in Smith and adjoining counties. Mr. Heslep attended the common schools of his county, then took a course in Soule's Business College, in New Orleans, gradu- ating June 28, 1889. In January, 1890, he entered upon the occupation of bookkeeping at Pelahatchie; has held office as Justice of the Peace and served as Mayor of Pela'- hatchie for several years. Mr. Heslep is a Democrat; a Methodist, Mason and Knight of Pythias. Was elected to the House of Representatives November 5, 1907. He was married December 15, 1880, at Polkville, Miss., to Frances Emily Summer, daughter of Alfred Summer and Jane (Boyd) Summer, of that place. Mr. Heslep has been untiring in his efforts to improve the schools of his vicinity.


Albert Gallatin Norrell.


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Burleigh Goodman.


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Mr. and Mrs. Heslep have eight children: William Henry, of Jackson, Miss .; Daisy Pearl (Heslep) Russell, now of Bolton; Walter Tallie, Jeff David, Robert Moore, Joseph Summer, Ella Ruth and Alfred Sharpe. -


SCOTT COUNTY.


OLIVER McILHENNY, of Forest, was born August 13. 1861, at Wilmington, North Carolina, the son of Oliver Mc- Ilhenny and wife, Olivia (Smith) McIlhenny. His paternal and maternal ancestors were Irish, his father having been born in Donegal County, Ireland; now resides in Washington, D. C. Mr. McIlhenny attended the schools of Tuskegee, Ala., in boyhood, obtained his collegiate education at the Univer- sity of Georgia and Cumberland University; entered the Law School of Lebanon, Tenn., taking his degree there in 1890. He served as Mayor of Forest in 1903 and 1904, was a Presidential Elector in 1904, and member of the State Senate, session of 1906. In the Senate he was a member of the following committees: Finance, Revision of Code of 1906, Agriculture and Commerce and Immigration. Mr. McIlhenny is a Presbyterian, a High Priest of the Royal Accepted Masons, and Senior Warden of his Lodge. He is not married. He-was elected to the House of Representa tives November 5, 1907.


SHARKEY COUNTY.


BURLEIGH GOODMAN, of Cary, was born October 23, 1845, at Sunnyside, Cumberland County, Va., the son of Robert Joseph Goodman and wife, Frances Wilkerson (Dun- ham) Goodman. Both paternal and maternal ancestors were Virginians. The subject of this sketch obtained his early education in the common schools of Cumberland and Amelia Counties, Virginia. In 1863 he enlisted in Company G, Third Virginia Cavalry, Wickham's Brigade, Fitzhugh Lee's Divi- sion, Army of Northern Virginia, and served the last eighteen months of the war. When peaceful conditions had been established he entered the University of Virginia, gradu- ating therefrom in 1868 with degree of M. D. In 1869 Dr. Goodman was employed in Baltimore Medical College, in college and hospital work; he came to Mississippi in 1872, and practiced until 1894. He served on the Board of Super- visors of his county from 1900 to 1904; has also been on senatorial arid county executive committees for several terms. Was elected to the House of Representatives November 5, 1907. Dr. Goodman is a Democrat, a Methodist, also a Senior Warden of the Masonic Order, and an Odd Fellow. He has been twice married, "his second wife was Lottie Ohleyer, daughter of John Ohleyer and wife, Sophie Reixel Ohleyer, of Brandon, Miss. Her parents emigrated from Alsace-Lorraine, John Ohleyer having served under Napoleon III in the Franco-Prussian War. Dr. and Mrs. Goodman have four children: H. S. Goodman, M. D., of Cary, Miss .; William Ivey Goodman, of Cumberland, Va., by the first marriage, and Robbie O. and Rexel Goodman by the last.


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SIMPSON COUNTY.


WILLIAM MILFORD LOFTON, of Mendenhall, was bom August 28, 1871, at Polkville, Smith County, Miss., and is the son of William Lofton and his wife, Nancy (Davis) Lofton. Both paternal and maternal ancestors came from England and settled in South Carolina at an early day. Mr. Lofton attended the public schools of his county in boy- hood, also studied at the Raleigh High School, when this institution was under the supervision of Professor F. A. Hatton; he did not attend college, but entered the Law Department of the University of Mississippi, taking his Bachelor's degree June 9, 1897; less than a month later he opened a law office at Raleigh, practicing there and at Westville until 1900, when he took up his residence at Mendenhall; was elected Mayor of that city in 1904, serving two terms; in January, 1907, was elected County Attorney for Simpson County; was elected to the House of Repre- sentatives November 5, 1907. Mr. Lofton is a Democrat, › and has served on the Democratic Executive Committee. He was married at Westville March 27, 1900, to Emma Durr, the daughter of Emanuel Durr and wife, Emma Durr. Mr. and Mrs. Lofton have two children, Milford and Lola May.


SMITH COUNTY.


EDGAR GAYLE ROBINSON, of Raleigh, was born September 11, 1868, in Smith County, Miss., the son of George Robinson and wife, Malicia (Crook) Robinson. His father was a native of Alabama, his mother of Mississippi; his father served four years as a Confederate soldier. Mr. Robinson was educated in the common schools of his county and at Sylvania High School; did not receive a college education, but later in life took the Millsaps law course, receiving his degree in 1897. He has practiced his profession at Raleigh since that date. He is a Democrat; served on the Executive Committee from the county at large from 1899 to 1903; is a Baptist, a Past Master of the Masonic Order, a Commander of Woodmen of the World and a mem- ber of the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Robinson was married at Raleigh to Floyd Jones, daughter of William Hinds Jones and wife, Sallie A. Jones. His wife's father was in the State Legislature in 1888. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson have three children: Sallie, Frank and May. He was elected to the House of Representatives November 5, 1907. Mr. Robinson died December 15, 1907, before the session of the Legisla- ture.


JOSEPH JAMES TERRY, of Daniel, was born April 27, 1861, at Trenton, Smith County, Miss., and is the son of Louis Saxon and Lula (Griffith) Terry. His paternal ancestors were from Kentucky, maternal from Georgia. Mr. Terry was educated in the public schools of Smith County, and has been engaged in farming all his life near the place of his birth. He was elected to the House of Representatives at a special election held January 25, 1908, to succeed E. G. Robinson, deceased. He is a Democrat; member of the Baptist Church; Mason and Master of Willis


W. Milford Lofton.


Edgar G. Robinson.


Joseph James Terry.


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Lodge, No. 92, and member and President of the Smith County Farmer's Union. Mr. Terry was married in Rankin County in 1883 to Belle Wallace, daughter of Wesley and Mary Wallace. Mr. and Mrs. Terry have seven children: John, Thomas, James, Minnie, Bessie, May and Walter.


SUNFLOWER COUNTY.


CHARLES PINKNEY ADAIR, of Indianola, was born February 1, 1858, at Clarksburg, Yolo County, Cal., the son of William Horry Adair and wife, Elizabeth Frances (Ross) Adair. His paternal great-grandfather was a soldier of the Revolution and passed unharmed through the perils of war, but later was killed by a band of Tories; his father was a native of Alabama; spent twelve years in California when a young man, then came to Mississippi; entered the Con- federate Army as Captain of Company E, Fourth Mississippi Regiment, and was killed at the siege of Vicksburg. Mr. Adair attended the public school in boyhood, later was a student in Professor W. H. Johnson's High School at Winona; spent a year at Mississippi College, Clinton, then went to the University of Mississippi at Oxford, taking a degree from the Law Department in 1881; the same year began practice at Johnsonville. He has had various employment as lawyer, druggist, journalist, remaining in this last voca- tion a number of years, but has now for some time ranked himself as a plain farmer, though residing in town. He has served two terms as Mayor of Indianola, 1899-1901, and 1904-05; was elected to the House of Representatives November 5, 1907; is a Democrat, a Presbyterian and a Mason; is now a member of the Judicial Executive Commit- tee of his district. Mr. Adair was married September 11, 1888, at Vaiden, Miss., to Julia Eldredge Colmery, daughter of Daniel Webster and Mary Eldredge (Lacy) Colmery, of Eldorado, Ark.


TATE COUNTY.


HERBERT HOLMES, of Senatobia, was born Septem- ber 30, 1878, at Plum Point, DeSoto County, Miss., the son of Francis Holmes and his wife, Lizzie Kelly (Clarke) Holmes. His paternal ancestors came from Ireland to South Carolina; his grandfather emigrating to Mississippi in 1836; he was a soldier of the United States Army in the Seminole War in Florida. The father of the subject of this sketch served as a Confederate soldier through the war in Walthall's Brigade, rising to the rank of Captain; he was a prisoner in Fort Delaware a year and a half. Mr. Holmes attended the public schools of DeSoto County; entered Iuka Normal Institute in 1895, taking a B. S. course, also received a diploma from Nelson's Business College; entered the Law School of the University of Mississippi and was graduated in June. 1904, with degree of Bachelor of Laws. During the same year he began practice at Senatobia, where he has been engaged ever since. The Supreme Court records show that he has been counsel in important litigation before that bydr; he has always taken part in every movement for the good of his home town and county. Mr. Holmes is a Democrat; member of the M. E. Church, South and a Knight of Pythias. He is not married.


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WALKER WOOD, of Senatobia, was born April 23, 1874, at Vicksburg, Miss., the son of William Menefee Wood and wife, Josephine (Kendrick) Wood. His paternal ancestors were Virginians of English descent. His grand- father, John Walker Wood, was educated at Transylvania University, Ky., practiced law in Paris, Ky., also in Lexing- ton and Kosciusko, Miss., and was a member of the Missis- sippi Secession Convention from Attala County. Mr. Wood was educated in the public schools of his vicinity; began journalistic work at the age of eighteen and has continued in that line ever since. He assumed charge of the Oxford (Miss.) Eagle in 1892, conducting that journal until 1899, then purchased the Senatobia Democrat of which he is now editor and proprietor. He was elected to the House of Representatives November 5, 1907. Mr. Wood is a Demo- Prat, a Methodist and member of the Masonic Order, also of the Woodmen of the World and Knights and Ladies of Honor. He has always been, through his paper, a warm advocate of all measures tending to the betterment of his town, county and State. In 1903 Tate County adopted the contract system of working public roads, after a spirited contest in which Mr. Wood led, and the advantage of the change is seen in the county's improved highways. He was married February 19, 1902, to Susie Garrott Meacham, daughter of Robert G. Meacham and Charity Olivia (Garrott) Meacham, of Senatobia. Mr. and Mrs. Wood have two living children, Olivia Elizabeth and George Meacham.


TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY.


JOHN NATHAN SULLIVANT, of Teasdale, was born October 7, 1883, at that place, the son of Jesse Sullivant and wife, Sallie Blakey (Patterson) Sullivant. His paternal ancestors were Scotch-Irish; first settled in North Carolina: maternal were Scotch, early settlers of Alabama. Mr. Sullivant's father was a native of Tallahatchie County; he enlisted in the Confederate Army in the spring of 1861 and served until the surrender in Walthall's Brigade. The sub- ject of this sketch attended the rural schools of his vicinity to get the rudiments of education; studied the higher branches at Millsaps College, Jackson. His occupation is that of general farming and merchandising. He was elected to the House of Representatives November 5, 1907. Mr. Sullivant is a Democrat and a Methodist. He was married at Enid in the latter part of October, 1904, to Annette Buntin. daughter of William Wiley Buntin and wife, Anna Buntin. Mr. and Mrs. Sullivant have one child, a little girl.


TIPPAH COUNTY.


SIDNEY OVID LOVE, of Ripley, was born February 6, 1849, at Kilmichael, Choctaw County, Miss., and is the son of Dr. Friend Ovid Love and his wife, Mary Elizabeth (Lipscomb) Love. His paternal ancestors came from Ire- land to South Carolina before the Revolutionary War; his maternal progenitors came from Scotland to the same colony and both lines are known to have taken part in the colonists' struggle for liberty. Mr. Love had but slight opportunity


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for education in boyhood, but attended the Masonic Military Institute at Carrollton in 1861-62, then under the princi- palship of Rev. Henry Ray. In 1863 he enlisted in Com- pany C, Twentieth Mississippi Infantry, C. S. A., and served with the Army of Tennessee until the surrender at Greens- boro, N. C., in 1865. He studied and read much at home and pursued the occupation of teaching in country schools from 1876 to 1887. He then adopted the business of farming, in which he is still engaged. He held office as Justice of the Peace in his county for two terms; was mem- ber of the Legislature in the session of 1888; was Circuit Clerk of Tippah County from 1896 to 1900; was elected to the House of Representatives November 5, 1907. Mr. Love is a Democrat, and a member and ordained preacher of the Methodist Protestant Church. He was married July 31, 1876, at Ruckersville to Lenora Elizabeth Braddock, daughter of John Marion Braddock and wife, Jane (Rid- dlesperger) Braddock. His wife is of a South Carolinian family whose ancestors came from Holland in the eighteenth century. Mr. and Mrs. Love have eight children: George Byron, of Greenville, Texas; Mary Elizabeth (Love) Glissen, of Ripley; Harriet Ann (Love) Meeks, of New Albany; Friend Ovid, of Ripley; Emma Chase, Lenora Jane, Sidney Tatum and Walter McLaurin.


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MACKDONEL ADAMS, of Iuka, was born April 15, 1845, in Pitt County, North Carolina, the son of Bryant Adams and Susan (Stokes) Adams. Both paternal and maternal ancestors were from Virginia. Mr. Adams was enlisted as a private in Company B, Colonel Morland's Regi- ment, Rhody's command, in the Confederate Army. Three years after the war he received his first education in a coun- try school. He made such good use of his limited opportuni- ties that he was able to begin teaching the first year that the free school system was in operation, and taught nine years; since then he has been occupied in farming; was elected to the House of Representatives November 5, 1907. Mr. Adams is a Democrat, a member of the Methodist Protestant Church and of the Farmers' Education and Co-operative Union. He was married April 4, 1876, near Iuka, to Drucilla ' Adeline Hubbard, daughter of Lemuel Jackson Hubbard and wife, Susan Hubbard. Mr. and Mrs. Adams have three children: Paul Raymond, Ollie Everet and Grace Ertell.


TUNICA COUNTY.


CHARLES WILEY DOHERTY, of Tunica, was born January 5, 1857, at Jackson, Miss., and is the son of Paul Manson Doherty and wife, Mary O'Sullivan. His ancestors came to Mississippi from Ireland. Mr. Doherty attended the public schools of Jackson, Miss .; is a cotton planter; elected to the House of Representatives from Tunica County November 3, 1903. Mr. Doherty is a Democrat; member of the Catholic Church; Knight of Pythias; was married March 17, 1883, at Memphis, Tenn., to Meta McIva White, daughter of William W. White and wife, Ann Pegues. Mrs. Doherty's ancestors came from Georgia and South Carolina.


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Mr. and Mrs. Doherty have two children: Annelle Longstreet and Clark White. In the House of 1904-1908 Mr. Doherty was a member of the following committees: Ways and Means, Levees (Ch.), Penitentiary. He was re-elected to the House November 5, 1907.


UNION COUNTY.


GASTON LILLY JONES, of New Albany, was born April 12, 1860, at Birmingham (then) Pontotoc County, Miss., and is the son of Atlas Jones and wife, Mary Frances (Cheairs) Jones. His paternal ancestors came to Mississippi from North Carolina; maternal from Tennessee. Mr. Jones was educated in the public schools of Union and Lee Coun- ties, and at the Johnson Institute at Booneville, Miss .; he read law in the office of Judge B. B. Boone, of Booneville, and was admitted to the bar in 1887; located at New Albany, Miss., for practice in April, 1888. He was the County Super- intendent of Education in Union County January 1, 1890, to January 1, 1896; was member of the Legislature, 1896-1900, and member of the State Senate, 1900-1904. Mr. Jones is a Democrat, Methodist, Pythian, Odd Fellow, and serves as recording steward of his church. When in the Legislature Mr. Jones was the author of the amendment to Section 206 of the State Constitution, causing a more equitable distribu- tion of the school fund, and also amended the laws of descent so that grandchildren could inherit exempt property from their grandparents; was elected to the House of Representa- tives November 5, 1907. Mr. Jones was married Novem- ber 7, 1897, to Esther Patterson, daughter of Jasper and Catharine Patterson, of New Albany. They have one living child, a daughter, Mary Louise Jones. Mr. Jones was a candidate for Speaker and received over twenty votes on the first ballot. Upon his withdrawal Hon. H. M. Street was elected.


ANDREW JACKSON JONES, of Myrtle, was born June 15, 1864, at Fredonia, Pontotoc County (now Union), Miss., and is the son of Andrew Jackson Jones and Mary (Dorsey) Jones. His father was a soldier of the Confederacy and held the rank of Captain. Mr. Jones received his primary education in the common schools. He is a farmer, and served as a member of the Board of Supervisors of Union County from 1900 to 1908; is a Democrat and a minister of the Baptist Church; he is a Mason and Woodman of the World. Mr. Jones was married July 24, 1890, to Hulett Harrison Ferguson, daughter of Sam and Martha Ferguson, of Gallway, Miss. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have four children: Levis, Clyde Fant, Annie Dorsey and A. J.


WARREN COUNTY.


THOMAS ROBBIN FOSTER, of Vicksburg, was born March 20, 1852, at Mobile, and is the son of Hillary Foster and Lucy (Meacham) Foster. His ancestors came to America from England and Scotland and settled in Massachusetts and Virginia. (See Pierce's History of the Fosters of Amer- ica.) Samuel Glen, a maternal ancestor, was a Captain in the Army of the Revolution. The subject of this sketch is a descendant of Ancher Great Forester of Flanders, who died


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in 837, and is a descendant of Sir John Foster, who was one of those who compelled King John to sign the Magna Charta in 1215. He died in 1220. Mr. Foster's father was President of the Mobile Bank and Mobile & Ohio R. R., and was a mem- ber of the mercantile firm of Boykin, McRae & Foster. Mr. Foster attended the schools of Mobile and Warrenton, N. C. He is a lawyer, and has been in active practice of law in Vicksburg since 1880; elected Justice of the Peace in 1884; was Mayor of the town of Speeds Addition from 1892 to · 1902, when he resigned; was elected to the House of Repre- sentatives from Warren County in 1902; re-elected in 1903 and 1907. Mr. Foster is a Democrat; member of the Episco- pal Church and Elks; was married November 29, 1882, at Vicksburg, Miss., to Mary Sophia Moore, daughter of Henry Tierman Moore and wife, Harriet Ann Moore, of Vicksburg, Miss. Mrs. Foster's father is said to have taught the first public school in Mississippi. Mr. and Mrs. Foster have one living child, Mary Corinne; have three dead: Hillary, Thomas Robbins and Henry Moore. In the House of 1904-1908 Mr. Foster was a member of the following committees: Ways and Means, Local and Private Legislation, Corporations, Insurance and Public Lands (Ch.)


GEORGE ROBERT HAWKINS, of Vicksburg, was born April 28, 1849, in Warren County, Miss., the son of George Hawkins and wife, Eliza (Willson) Hawkins. Pater- nal ancestors came to America from Ireland, maternal from Scotland, in the early years of the nineteenth century. He obtained his education solely from the public schools in his vicinity, and did not enter college. He has always followed the occupation of farmer and cotton planter; was selected by the British Cotton Growing Association, of Manchester, England, as cotton expert, to go to West Africa to teach the English and natives how to raise and treat cotton, and spent two years there. Mr. Hawkins was brought up in the Epis- copal Church; was elected to the House of Representatives November 5, 1907. He was married at Natchez January 28, 1871, to Mary Agnes Adams, daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Charlotte Donahoe Adams, of Church Hill. By this marriage he had five children: Mrs. Sallie M. (Hawkins) Oates, Henry Downs Hawkins, William Mercer Hawkins, Harrald Herbert Hawkins and Mrs. Agnes (Hawkins) Har- vey, all residents of Vicksburg. Mrs. Mary Agnes Hawkins died in 1883, and Mr. Hawkins was married a second time. to Lotta Child, daughter of Henry and Angelina Child; by this union he has one child, Evangeline Henri.




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