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The two-story mansion was built from 1840 to 1845 for Thomas Baytop Cocke, a farmer. [2] It was purchased by Charles Lyman Martin in 1891. [2] When their daughter Ella May married Eugene Edgar Jackson in 1894, they purchased more land and turned it into a 1,500-acre (610 ha) plantation. [2]
Brandon Cemetery (commonly referred to as Old Brandon Cemetery) is located in Brandon, Mississippi, northeast of the Downtown Brandon Historic District. It is an 8.8 acre cemetery originally platted in 1831. The cemetery contains over 1,000 marked graves, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. [4]
JPMorgan Chase has refused to pay out an estimated $331-a-month pension to the widow of one of the bank’s former longtime employees — with the excuse that he failed to fill out the necessary ...
James Franklin Purvis (c. 1808 – April 23, 1880) was an American slave trader, broker, and banker who worked primarily in Baltimore. He was a nephew of Isaac Franklin of Franklin & Armfield, and traded in Maryland, Louisiana, and Mississippi in the 1830s and early 1840s. In 1842 he became a devout Methodist, quit the slave trade, and ...
Stephen Duncan (March 4, 1787 – January 29, 1867) was an American planter and banker in Mississippi.He was born and studied medicine in Pennsylvania, but moved to Natchez District, Mississippi Territory in 1808 and became the wealthiest cotton planter and the second-largest slave owner in the United States with over 2,200 slaves.
Brandon High School (Mississippi) C. Cocke-Martin-Jackson House; D. Downtown Brandon Historic District; P. Pearl Street Historic District (Brandon, Mississippi) R.
He participated in the convention for the writing of the Mississippi Constitution in 1890 and was described as a free-coinage man. [3] A Democrat , as were most whites in the South through the mid-twentieth century, McLaurin was elected by the state legislature to the U.S. Senate , serving from 1894 to 1895.