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Frederick Brougher Smith was born on May 14, 1892, on his father's plantation near Ripley, Mississippi. [1] He was the son of planter Robert Bruce Smith Jr. and his wife, Fannie (Palmer) Smith. [1] Frederick was a great-nephew of Mississippi Secretary of State C. A. Brougher. [1] [2] Frederick attended the schools of Tippah County, Mississippi. [1]
In November 1903, Anderson purchased the Southern Sentinel newspaper and moved from Dumas to Ripley, Mississippi. [1] In 1905, Anderson was sent by the Mississippi State Cotton Association to the National Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. [1] In 1907, Anderson was the local Farmers' Union delegate to the state meeting in Jackson, Mississippi. [1]
Ripley is a city in Tippah County, Mississippi, United States.The population was 5,395 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Tippah County. [5]Colonel William Clark Falkner, great-grandfather of authors William Faulkner and John Faulkner, was a prominent resident of Ripley in the mid to late-19th century.
Donald Ellis Wildmon was born in Ripley, Mississippi, [1] [2] the son of Johnnie Bernice (née Tigrett), a schoolteacher, and Ellis Clifton Wildmon, a civil servant. [3] [4] Wildmon graduated from Millsaps College in 1960. In 1961, he married Lynda Lou Bennett, with whom he had two sons and two daughters. From 1961 to 1963, he served in the U.S ...
Last summer, he led a similar tour of Ripley and New Albany for visiting scholars at the University of Mississippi's Faulkner-Yoknapatawpha Conference in Oxford, Mississippi. Bruce's father (Robert Bruce Smith, III) was the special prosecutor appointed by Mississippi Governor J.P. Coleman in the Emmett Till case. Bruce, along with his brother ...
The following people were either born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Ripley, Mississippi. Pages in category "People from Ripley, Mississippi" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.