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J. J. O'NEILL, of Vicksburg.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
JOSEPH HORACE NELMS, of Greenville, was born June 28, 18;8, in Chickasaw County, near Houston, Miss., and is the son of John Calhoun Nelms and his wife, Agnes (Goode) Nelms. He was at an early age separated from his parents, and family records having been destroyed during the Civil War, he has been unable to ascertain the nativity of his ancestors. In boyhood he attended school at Houston, Miss., where his instructor was Rev. Mr. Caruthers, an old school Presbyterian preacher. In May, 1863, being then
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scarcely sixteen years old, he enlisted in Company G, Eighth Mississippi Cavalry, and served with his command until it surrendered, in April, 1865, at Gainesville, Ala. On returning to peaceful life, he attended school at Marshall, Tex., in 1866 and 1867, then taught school for one year, after which he entered mercantile pursuits, in which he has ever since been more or less engaged. He served as Deputy Sheriff of Navarro County, Tex., in 1870, and held the same office in Panola County, Miss., from 1886 to 1889. Mr. Nelms is a Democrat, a member of the Episcopal Church since 1874. a Sunday-school Superintendent for eighteen years, and an officer of Greenville Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; was elected to the House of Representatives Novem- ber 5, 1907. He was married April 29, 1873, to Lillian Lee Hudson, daughter of Alfred Hudson and his wife, Narcissa (Kirkwood) Hudson, of Panola County. His wife's father served two years in the Mexican War, and in the Civil War commanded Hudson's Battery until the Battle of Shiloh, where he was killed.
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VAN BUREN BODDIE, of Greenville, was born Janu- ary 20, 1869, at Memphis, Tenn., the son of Van Buren Boddie and wife, Anna (Jewell) Boddie. Mr. Boddie ob- tained his early education in the common schools of his vicinity, did not enter college, but read law in the office of Messrs. Yager and Percy, in Greenville; he was admitted to the bar in 1893, opening practice in that city. He was a member of the Legislature during the sessions of 1902 and 1906, filling the unexpired term of F. E. Larkin in the first- named year and that of Percy Bell in the second; was elected . to the House of Representatives November 5, 1907. Mr. Boddie is a Democrat, an Episcopalian, a Mason and member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He was married March 13, 1895, at Greenville, to Fay Shields, daughter of John W. Shields and wife, Sallie (Walton) Shields, of Oxford, Miss. In the House of 1906 Mr. Boddie was a member of the following committees: Judiciary, Levee and Penitentiary, and is the author of the anti-future- gambling bill.
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NEADOM WALTER SUMRALL, of Belzoni, was born February 1, 1875, at Gallman, Copiah County, Miss., the son of Joseph Sumrall and wife, Levicy Elizabeth (Wilson) Sum- rall. His father served four years in the Confederate Army under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. Mr. Sumrall attended the public schools of Copiah County and the high school at Gallman; entered Mississippi Normal College at Houston, where he was graduated in 1899 with B. S. degree. After this he taught school in Copiah County for nearly eight years, then took a special course at Mississippi College, Clinton, in English, Latin and Philosophy; entered the Law School of Millsaps College, taking his degree in 1905. He was admitted to the bar and located for practice at Belzoni. in June, 1905, where he has been ever since; was elected to the House of Representatives November 5, 1907. He has served as member of the Teachers' Examining Board of his county. He is a Democrat, member of the Baptist Church and Knights of Pythias. Mr. Sumrall was married Decem- ber 17, 1907, at Belzoni, to Lena Lee Jackson.
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Ernest William Stewart.
Troy Rufus Langston.
William Johnson Stockett.
WAYNE COUNTY.
ERNEST WILLIAM STEWART, of Waynesburg, was . born October 4, 1862, at Vaiden, Carroll County, Miss., the son of William Stewart and wife, Mary (Pleasants) Stewart. His paternal line was of Scotch-Irish descent, and lived in Ohio until his father came south when a young man, took a medical course in New Orleans, and began practice as a physician at Vaiden, Miss .; he opposed the idea of secession, but when Mississippi went out of the Union, he was among the first to take up arms in her defense; and went to the field as a Lieutenant in Armstrong's Brigade, remaining in the service until his death in 1863. Mr. Stewart's maternal grandfather was a native Mississippian, a soldier in the Mexican War, and a Major in the Confederate Army. The subject of this sketch attended common schools in this State and in Sandwich, Ill., and obtained higher education . at Jennings Seminary, Aurora, Ill. He studied law at Cum- berland University, Lebanon, Tenn., taking his degree there in January, 1885; he has practiced at Vaiden, at McComb City, and for the last five years at Waynesboro. Mr. Stewart holds the position of City Attorney for the town of Waynes- boro, and has been County Attorney also for four years, and was elected to the House of Representatives November 5, 1907. He is a Democrat, a member of the Baptist Church, an Odd Fellow, a Knight of Pythias and Woodman of the World. He was married December 19, 1895, at McComb City, to Sophia M. Kepper, daughter of Louis and Frances Kepper, of that place.
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TROY RUFUS LANGSTON, of Walthall, was born September 11, 1855, near Raleigh, N. C., the son of Elias Langston and wife, Sarah (Lewis) Langston. He was edu- cated in the rural schools of North Carolina; left that State in 1879, and for several years was a railroad contractor. He has been a resident of Mississippi now for eighteen years. He is the present Mayor of Walthall, and for two years has . been editor and proprietor of the Walthall Warden. He was elected to the House of Representatives November 5, 1907. Mr. Langston is a Democrat, a Baptist, and a member of the Woodmen of the World. He was married near Mathiston, Miss., June 5, 1889, to Ola Holland, daughter of Henry Harrison Holland and wife, Mary Holland, of that locality. Mr. and Mrs. Langston have no children.
WILKINSON COUNTY.
WILLIAM JOHNSON STOCKETT, of Woodville, was born February 14, 1868, in Wilkinson County, Miss., the son of Peter M. Stockett and wife, Juliet (Johnson) Stockett. His paternal ancestors came from Maryland, maternal from Virginia; both families were of English descent; his father was a Confederate soldier of Company K, Sixteenth Missis- sippi Regiment, and was the regiment's color-bearer; was also a Presbyterian Elder, and twice a Commissioner to the Presbyterian General Assembly of the United States. Mr.
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Stockett attended the schools of Wilkinson County in early youth; obtained his higher education at the Chamberlain- Hunt Academy, Port Gibson, and at the University of Mis- sissippi; he was graduated from the last-named institution in 1889 with degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the bar in Woodville, Miss., in January, 1890, and since that date has been engaged in the practice of law in that city; was elected to the House of Representatives November 5, 1907. He is a Democrat and a member and elder in the Presby- terian Church.
SIDNEY ROSS JONES, of Centerville, was born May 1, 1875, at Baton Rouge, La., the son of Henry Jones and wife, Winifred (Pipes) Jones. Both his father and grandfather on the father's side were born in Erie County, N. Y .; his ma- ternal ancestors came from Scotland to North Carolina, and thence to Louisiana. His father served four years in the Confederate Army. Mr. Jones attended the public schools of New Orleans; did not receive a college education. He came to Wilkinson County, Miss., in 1891, later, learned the life insurance business in an office, and in 1904 started out for himself in that line; was elected to the House of Repre- sentatives November 5, 1907. He is a Democrat and an Episcopalian, but has no secret society affiliations. He was married January 2, 1900, to Olive Bramlette, daughter of D. C. Bramlette and Olivia Ratcliffe, of Woodville, Miss .;. married second time December 29, 1903, to Lizzie Anderson, daughter of Thaddeus N. L. Anderson and wife, Laura (Lusk) Anderson, of Centerville, Miss. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have two children: Olive Bramlette, by first marriage, and Wind- sor, by second marriage.
WINSTON COUNTY.
OAKLEY ADAIR BENNETT, of Louisville, was born June 24, 1885, at Louisville, Winston County, Miss., and is the son of John Oscar Bennett and Lillian (Oakley) Bennett. His ancestors emigrated to Mississippi from South Carolina and Kentucky, and some member of the family has been a soldier in every foreign war in which the United States has been engaged. Mr. Bennett received his primary education in the schools of Louisville, Miss., and afterwards continued his studies at the Mississippi A. and M. College, United States Naval Academy and Cumberland University. He has been a Midshipman in the United States Navy, and holds the rank of First Lieutenant in the Mississippi National Guard. He is a Democrat; member of the Presbyterian Church and Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity. During his student days Mr. Bennett was on the board of editors of the college paper and editor of the University Annual. He is unmarried.
YALOBUSHA COUNTY.
JESSE ROWE COLEMAN, of Water Valley, was born September 15, 1847, at Eutaw, Greene County, Ala., the son of John Greene Coleman and wife, Mary Elizabeth (Coleman) Coleman. His grandparents came from Wales to South Carolina, and thence to Alabama. Mr. Coleman attended
Sidney Ross Jones.
Oakley Adair Bennett.
Jesse Rowe Coleman.
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the country schools of Yalobusha County, served in the ranks of the Confederate Army when a mere lad, and had no opportunity for a college education. His occupation has always been that of a tiller of the soil, and his life has been quite devoid of incident. He is a Jeffersonian Democrat, a Universalist and meniber of the Masonic Order and of the Farmers' Union. He was elected to the House of Repre- sentatives November 5, 1907. He married, November I, 1876, Emma Laura Stevens, daughter of Silas P. Stevens and wife, Rhoda (Morgan) Stevens, of Columbus, Ga. Mr. and Mrs. Coleman have two children : J. G. Coleman, of Water Valley, and Mrs. Eula Lee (Coleman) Gordon, of Tuscumbia, Ala.
JOHN LYNN HARRIS, of Water Valley, was born February 2, 1878, at Hemingway, Carroll County, Miss. He is the son of Willis Benjamin Harris and wife, Emma Lynn (Thompson) Harris. Mr. W. B. Harris was a native of North Carolina and came to Montgomery County, Miss., with his parents while an infant; in 1876 moving his residence to Carroll County. The subject of this sketch attended the public schools of Carroll County in his boyhood; then took a course in Draughon's Business College, Nashville; after that entered the University of Mississippi and studied law, taking his Bachelor's degree in 1903. The same year he formed a · partnership with Hon. J. G. McGowen, of Water Valley, for law practice, which partnership continued for two years. Mr. Harris is a member of the Yalobusha County bar. He · is a Democrat, a member of the Christian Church, Chancellor Commander of the Knights of Pythias, Past Sachem of the Improved Order of Red Men, and member of the Woodmen - of the World; was elected to the House of Representatives November 5, 1907. He was married September 18, 1904, in Water Valley, to Eleanor Bradford Duke, daughter of Charles William Duke and wife, Mary Elizabeth Duke. Mr. and Mrs. Harris have two children: Charles Gerald and John Lynn, Jr.
YAZOO COUNTY.
CHARLES JOSEPH BURRUS, of Yazoo City, was born May 23, 1851, the son of James R. Burrus and his wife Laurentina (Walker) Burrus. of that city. His ancestors on both sides came to America from England prior to the Revo- lutionary War, the paternal line settling in Virginia, the maternal in Georgia. The father of the subject of this sketch, a native of Tennessee, was a noted lawyer of Yazoo in ante-bellum days; served as Probate Judge and member of the State Legislature. Mr. Burrus attended a private school in early boyhood and was then sent to Kentucky Military Institute, where he graduated in 1869. He com- pleted his course in the Law Department of Cumberland University in 1872, taking the degree of Bachelor of Laws; carried on the practice of his profession in Yazoo City from 1872 to 1879, and served as Representative in the State Legislature during the sessions of 1900 and 1902. Mr. Burrus is a Democrat, a member of the Episcopal Church, and has held high official position in the Order of the Wood- men of the World; was elected to the House of Representa-
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tives November 5, 1907. He was married December 5, 1878, to Myra Cocks, daughter of Philip Gilbert Cocks and his wife, Eliza (Du Buisson) Cocks, of Lakeland Plantation, Holmes County. Mrs. Cocks is a descendant of a French Huguenot family. Mr. and Mrs. Burrus have five children : Mrs. Inez (Burrus) Rucker, Charles Joseph, Jr., Cabell Breckenridge, Laurentina and Myra.
THEODORE SCHMITT, of Yazoo City, was born May 28, 1845, at Baden, Germany, the son of Joseph Schmitt and his wife, Ludovica (Hofstetter) Schmitt. The parents of Joseph Schmitt had emigrated from Germany to America in 1843, settling in Galena, Ill., where both died during the cholera epidemic of 1848; there their son Joseph had joined them in 1847, but after their deaths he went to the South, settling in Yazoo City, where his wife and family came to him from Germany in 1852. The subject of this sketch was educated in the public schools at Yazoo. He enlisted May 3, 1861, in Company D of the Eighteenth Mississippi Regi- ment; was wounded in the battle of Malvern Hill and was retired; re-enlisted with Wirt Adams Cavalry in September, 1863, but by a wound in the foot May 16, 1864, was dis- abled for further military duty. Mr. Schmitt was President of the Board of Supervisors of Yazoo County from 1882 to 1884; Mayor of Yazoo City 1894-1896; was elected to the House of Representatives November 5, 1907. He is a Democrat; a member of the Catholic Church and a Wood- man of the World. He married Mary Gertrude O'Keefe November 7, 1872; she is the daughter of Maurice O'Keefe and wife, Margaret (Byrns) O'Keefe. Mr. and Mrs. Schmitt have six children : Gertrude, Frank G., Louise, Theodore M., Andrew B. and William A. Mr. Schmitt has recently begun an important work in the development of wild lands in Washington and Sunflower Counties, which he purchased over twenty-five years ago.
WILLIAM MOORE HUDSON, of Yazoo City, was born March 24, 1856, near Kosciusko, Attala County, Miss., and is the son of Robert Spencer Hudson and wife, Nancy Elvira (Gray) Hudson. His paternal ancestors came from South Carolina. The father of the subject of our sketch was a famous lawyer, a member of the convention that passed Mississippi Ordinance of Secession; Circuit Judge from 1861 to 1865; member of the State Legislature in 1875, and Chairman of the Committee on Impeachment of Gov- ernor Ames. Mr. Hudson attended the common schools of Yazoo City and obtained his collegiate education at Oxford, Miss., where he studied during the years 1875-77. He studied law but never practiced, and has followed the occu- pation of Insurance Agent. He was Justice of the Peace in Warren County in 1887-88. He is a Democrat, an adherent of the Catholic Church and member of the orders of the Woodmen of the World and of the Elks. Was elected to the House of Representatives November 5, 1907. He was mar- ried January 16, 1889, at Vicksburg to Eliza W. Crozier, daughter of Edward W. Crozier and wife, Eliza Quackenbos Crozier, of Palmyra. Mr. and Mrs. Hudson had but one child, a son, who died in his fourteenth year.
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FRANKLIN AND LINCOLN COUNTIES.
ROBERT ELI BENNETT, of Meadville, was born Sep- tember 25, 1871, at Little Springs, Franklin County, Miss .. the son of James Paul Bennett and wife, Sarah Rebecca (Carruth) Bennett. Both paternal and maternal ancestors came from the Carolinas to Mississippi in pioneer times. His father enlisted as a private in Company A, Seventh Mis- sissippi Regiment, known as the "Franklin Rifles," became Orderly Sergeant and fought through the war. Mr. Bennett attended the public schools of Little Springs and the High School at Auburn; he took an irregular course at Millsaps College, Jackson, entering in October, 1895, and finally completing the law course in 1903. During the intervening periods he taught school in Lincoln and Franklin Counties to defray his college expenses. Since 1905 he has been in active practice of law in his town and county. He filled an unexpired term as County Superintendent of Education in 1900, and was elected to the House of Representatives November 5, 1907. Mr. Bennett is a member of the M. E. Church, South and of the orders of Woodmen of the World, Odd Fellows and Masons. He was married September 25, 1907, to Augusta Lena Newman, daughter of Rudolph Ses- sions Newman and Sarah Edith (Cowart) Newman, of Veto, Miss. Her family is descended from the pioneers of Ken- tucky.
TIPPAH AND BENTON COUNTIES.
ALBERT CLARENCE ANDERSON, of Ripley, was born February 7, 1878, at Dumas, Tippah County, Miss., the son of William Walter Anderson and wife, Mary Elizabeth (Shackelford) Anderson. Ancestors were native Mississippians from an early day; his father entered the Confederate Army in 1863, on reaching the age of eighteen years, and saw active fighting under General Forrest and General Joe Johnston. Mr. Anderson attended the public schools of Tippah in youth, but counts the most important part of his training that obtained under Professor L. H. Jobe at the Dumas Institute. He lived on the farm whereon he was born until November, 1903, when he purchased the Southern Sentinel, and since then has been editor and proprietor of that paper; although without previous newspaper training, he has succeeded well. Mr. Anderson was a member of the Legislature in the sessions of 1900-1902; he is a Democrat; was delegate to State conventions of 1899 and 1904; was sent by the State Cotton Association to the National meet- ing at New Orleans in January, 1905; Farmers' Union dele- gate to State meeting at Jackson, 1907; represented his Congressional District at Waterways Convention at Mem- phis, 1907; was elected to the House of Representatives November 5, 1907; is a member of the Baptist Church, of the Masonic Order. of Knights of Pythias and Woodmen of the World. Mr. Anderson was married at Dumas Decem- ber 24, 1905, to Frances Caroline Humphrey, daughter of John William and Belle Humphrey; they have one child, William Humphrey Anderson.
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CLAIBORNE AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES.
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JOHN FOSTER FRIERSON, of Port Gibson, was born July 1, 1876, at Okolona, Chickasaw County, and is the son of Rev. William Vincent Frierson and his wife, Florence (Foster) Frierson. His ancestors on both sides were Scotch and Scotch-Irish, early settlers in the Carolinas. The father of the subject of this sketch was a Confederate soldier, member of the Second Mississippi Regiment, serving from the opening of the war until wounded at Gettysburg in the first day's fight; he was President of the Chickasaw Female College at Pontotoc from 1877 to 1892, and is now Superin- tendent of Palmer Orphanage, Columbus. Mr. Frierson attended the Pontotoc Male Academy, then entered the Presbyterian University at Clarksville, Tenn., graduating with A. B. degree in 1899; taught school for seven years after leaving college at French Camp and Okolona schools, and in the Chamberlain-Hunt Academy, Port Gibson. While teaching at the last named place he read law in the office of Hon. J. McC. Martin, and was admitted to the bar in January, 1906, beginning practice in June of the same year as the junior member of the firm of Martin and Frierson; Port Gibson; was elected to the House of Representatives November 5, 1907. Mr. Frierson is a Democrat; an elder in the Presbyterian Church and a Mason. He is unmarried.
John F. Frierson.
CLARKE AND JASPER COUNTIES.
JOHN DAVID FARTHERREE, of Quitman, was born April 9, 1879, near DeSoto, Clarke County, the son of John Ware Fartherree and wife, Louisa (Sellars) Fartherree. His paternal ancestors were French Huguenots who settled in the Carolinas and came to Mississippi in 1820; maternal. came from South Carolina; his father enlisted in 1861 in the "Jasper Grays," the first company formed in Jasper County; he served through the war until the siege of Petersburg, where he was wounded and came home. Mr. Fartherree obtained his early education in the common schools of Clarke County; later he entered Millsaps College and graduated from the Law Department of that institution May 9, 1902. During the same month he was admitted to the bar and began practice as an attorney. He was elected to the House of Representatives November 5, 1907. Mr. Fartherree is a Democrat and is a member of the M. E. Church, South, at McGowan's Chapel in Clarke County. He is unmarried.
GRENADA AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES.
MARCELLUS HUTSON ALLEN, of Winona, was born May 9, 1834, in Marion County, Alabama, the son of Francis Asbury Allen and wife, Ruth (Adair) Allen. Paternal ancestors were of English, maternal of Irish descent; his paternal great-grandfather, Charles Allen, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and was wounded at the battle of Charleston. He lived to be 107 years old. Mr. Allen attend- ed the rurul schools near Winona, and enrolled in the insti- tution at College Grove, Williamson County, Tenn., but left
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Marcellus H. Allen.
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school in March, 1861, and went home to enter the Con- federate Army. He enlisted as a private in Company B, Fifteenth Mississippi Regiment; during the same year be- came Third Lieutenant of his company; was appointed First Lieutenant at the reorganization of the army; just before the war ended. Mr. Allen was a merchant from 1865 to 1869, and since then has been a farmer. He was Mayor of Lodi, Miss., from 1866 to 1874; was elected Floater Rep- resentative from Montgomery and Choctaw Counties in 1878, and was elected to the House of Representatives November 5, 1907. He is a Democrat, a steward in the M. E. Church, South, member of the A. F. and A. M., also of the Royal Arch Masons. He was married at Winona, Miss., June 24, 1869, to. Mary Malvina Evans, daughter of Duncan Evans and Marilda Adline Evans, their family is of Scotch descent. Mr. and Mrs. Allen have five children: Francis Albert Allen, of Winona; Mrs. Anna Lou (Allen) Hamer, Winona; . William Duncan Allen, of Kilmichael; Marcellus . Hutson Allen, Jr., Winona, and John Russel Allen.
LEAKE AND WINSTON COUNTIES.
WILLIAM BUTLER WOODALL, of Noxapater, was born November 8, 1875, at Plattsburg, Winston County, Miss., the son of Henry Martin Woodall and wife, Elizabeth (Young) Woodall. His paternal ancestors were originally from England. Mr. Woodall obtained his early education in the public schools of Plattsburg under Professor G. F. Boyd and other teachers. He entered Mississippi Normal Col- lege at Houston, where he was graduated in 1899 with degree of B. L. and honor of being Salutatorian of his class. His occupations have been teaching and farming; was elected to the House of Representatives November 5, 1907. He is a Democrat, a member of the Baptist Church and of the order of Masons. He was married March 21, 1900, at Plattsburg to Mary Susan Boswell, daughter of Richard J. Boswell and wife, Mary Boswell; of that place. Mr. and Mrs. Woodall have three children: Thelma, Bonnie Kate and Willie Labon.
HARRISON COUNTY.
HORACE BLOOMFIELD, of Gulfport, was born Sep- tember 30, 1855, at New Orleans, La., has lived in Missis- sippi since childhood, and is the son of George Thomas Bloom- field, a native of Tittlesdale, Norfolk County, England (who on coming to the United States first lived in the city of New York and afterwards in New Orleans), and wife, Harriett Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob Tunis Baldwin and wife. Mary (Donington) Baldwin, of New Orleans; both paternal and maternal ancestors being of English origin. Thomas Baldwin. a maternal ancestor. was a soldier of the Revolu- tion. Mr. Bloomfield attended school at Handsboro, Miss .. under the instruction of Prof. J. B. Suyer, and later at Trinity High School at Pass Christian, Miss., under Rev. W. E. Phillips and Prof. E. Lee Blanton; studied law in the office of Hon. W. G. Henderson, at Handsboro; was admitted to the bar by the Circuit Court, James S. Hamn, Judge; began the practice of law in 1878; formed a partnership in 1878
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