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McCarty was born in Shubuta, Mississippi and moved to Hattiesburg as a child. In her sixth grade, her aunt (who had no children of her own) was hospitalized and later needed homecare, so McCarty quit school, never to return. She later became a washerwoman, like her grandmother, a trade that she continued until arthritis forced her to quit in 1994.
Edythe Evelyn Gandy (September 4, 1920 – December 23, 2007) was an American attorney and politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1976 to 1980. A Democrat who held several public offices throughout her career, she was the first woman elected to a statewide constitutional office in Mississippi.
Adams died at her son Cecil's home in Baltimore on August 12, 2006, of cancer, aged 79. On September 9, 2006, a memorial service was held in her memory in a Methodist church near her hometown, Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Her papers are at the McCain Library and Archives at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Four people were killed when a small plane crashed into a home in Mississippi late Tuesday night, police said. Authorities in Hattiesburg were called to the scene of the civilian plane crash just ...
Marcus “MJ” Daniels Jr., a defensive back at Southern Mississippi, was shot to death Tuesday night at an apartment complex in Hattiesburg, a coroner said. Daniels' body was sent to a medical ...
The Mississippi Legislature honored civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer in 2016, on the 50th anniversary of his death, Jan. 10, 2016.
Integrating the University of Southern Mississippi at Hattiesburg Gwendolyn Elaine Armstrong was a black Mississippi pioneer in the Civil Rights Movement . In September, 1965, she and Raylawni Branch , both local natives, integrated the University of Southern Mississippi at Hattiesburg .
Houston died on September 27, 2007, of heart failure at the Wesley Medical Center in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, at the age of 67. [1] At his funeral, his friend, Troy Shondell gave a musical tribute, and interment was in Smyrna Cemetery in Collins, Mississippi .