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Weeks before Townes and Roosevelt were killed, Mississippi led the nation in lynchings, accounting for over 525 of the 4,820 on record since 1882. [54] However, moments before the lynching occurred, Governor White boasted, at a Farm Chemurgic Conference in Jackson, that there had not been a lynching in the state in 15 months.
National Register of Historic Places listings in Pike County, Mississippi; Fernwood Lumber Company; History of Pike County Mississippi 1798-1876 by Luke W. Conerly 1909; J. J. Carter, Pike County native who served in the late 19th century in the Louisiana House of Representatives and as mayor of Minden, Louisiana [15]
A post office operated under the name Pikeville from 1844 to 1859 and under the name Egypt from 1859 to 1979. [4] The Battle of Egypt Station was fought on December 28, 1864, when Brigadier General Benjamin Grierson's Union cavalry division defeated an outnumbered Confederate force led by Samuel J. Gholson and Franklin Gardner.
TyKeria Rogers, an 18-year-old from Natchez, Mississippi, died when a tree fell onto her home Saturday during severe weather. 'Too much to take': Mississippi city mourns teen killed when tree ...
The Mississippi Supreme Court has affirmed the convictions and death sentences of a man in the killings of eight people, including his mother-in-law and a deputy sheriff, at three different crime ...
Three people were killed and eight others injured by gunfire at a party to celebrate a local school’s football victory at a trail in Mississippi early Saturday, according to the local sheriff.
Dickins, born Ruth Idella Thompson on June 9, 1906, was raised in Leland, Mississippi.Her father, Joseph Wood Thompson, was a pioneer planter and cotton merchant in Washington County who operated the Lewis, Archer, and Perrin Plantations and the Leland Mercantile Company, served as the treasurer of the Leland Business League and the Leland Law and Order League, served as president of the Board ...
Seven people, including a six-year-old boy and his teenage sister, have been killed and 37 others injured in a bus crash in Mississippi early on Saturday morning.. The accident happened at around ...