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Magee's first mayor was R.P. Vinson, who served from 1900 to 1907. [5] In 2013, First Baptist Church in downtown Magee was seriously damaged by a fire but has been restored. [7] Windham's Restaurant is located in Magee, and was established in 1963, locally known as "Zip's". In 2015, the Zip Burger was voted the best hamburger in Mississippi. [8 ...
"Funeral Services Held Tuesday For The Last American Slave", Columbian-Progress obituary, October 21, 1971 "America's Oldest Citizen Dies in Mississippi at 130", Jet, 4 November 1971, p. 10, reprinted in Magee, Kenneth F. (April 1994). The Magee Family History; As I Found Them. Copy in State of Mississippi Archives: Self Published, 1994. p. 44.
Tylertown is a town in and the county seat of Walthall County, Mississippi, United States. [2] This town is fifty-five miles southwest from the Hattiesburg metropolitan area . Its population was 1,609 at the 2010 census .
Robert Lowry (March 10, 1829 – January 19, 1910) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 32nd governor of Mississippi from 1882 to 1890. Before entering politics, he was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded infantry in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
Edward McGehee (November 8, 1786 – October 1, 1880) was an American judge and major planter in Wilkinson County, Mississippi.He owned nearly 1,000 slaves to work his thousands of acres of cotton land at his Bowling Green Plantation.
Pages in category "People from Magee, Mississippi" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
Gwendolyn (Gwen) Ann Magee (August 31, 1943 – April 27, 2011) was an African-American fiber artist.Learning to quilt in the middle of her life, Magee quickly became known in the world of fiber art for her abstract and narrative quilts depicting the African-American experience.
Amanda Belle Elzy (died 2004) was a pioneering African-American educator. [1] She graduated from Rust High School in 1929 and from Rust College in 1934. [1] She worked as Supervisor of Negro Schools in Leflore County, Mississippi, then became the first black assistant superintendent in the county, and was one of the founders of Mississippi Valley State University in the 1940s.