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The Grenada, Mississippi, tornado of May 7, 1846, killed 21 people, injured 60, and destroyed 60 or 70 buildings in the southern half of Grenada, Yalobusha County, Mississippi [a] in the United States. [1] [2] [3] Other accounts had it that 112 buildings were destroyed, [4] including 17 homes. [5]
Yalobusha, Grenada Democratic 1847–1906 Daniel Weisiger Adams: 1852–1856 Hinds 1821–1872 Jesse A. Adams: 1928–1932 26th Democratic 1876–1940 John Jefferson Adams: 1908–1912 Chickasaw, Calhoun, Pontotoc Democratic 1860–1935 Lawrence Adams: 1948–1960 Adams Democratic 1914–1994 Marshal T. Adams: 1916–1924 31st Democratic 1886 ...
NewspaperCat: Catalog of Digital Historical Newspapers. Gainesville. "Mississippi". N-Net: the Newspaper Network on the World Wide Web. Archived from the original on February 15, 1997. "United States: Mississippi". NewsDirectory.com. Toronto: Tucows Inc. Archived from the original on November 19, 2001. "Mississippi Newspapers". AJR News Link ...
Grenada (/ ɡ r ə ˈ n eɪ d ə / [2]) is a city in Grenada County, Mississippi, United States. Founded in 1836, [ 3 ] the population was 13,092 at the 2010 census . [ 4 ] It is the county seat of Grenada County .
Johanna von Koczian, 90, German actress (Victor and Victoria, The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi, Our House in Cameroon). [322] Gunild Lattmann-Kretschmer, 87, German intendant and politician, member of the Landtag of Saxony (1994–2004). [323] Ian Lawson, 84, English footballer (Leeds United, Burnley, Crystal Palace). [324] (death announced on ...
William Forrest Winter was born on February 21, 1923, in Grenada, Mississippi, United States as the son of Mississippi state legislator and cotton broker William Aylmer Winter and school teacher Inez Parker. [1] [2] His grandfather, William H. Winter, suggested that he be given the middle name Forrest after Confederate General Nathan Bedford ...
Together with C. F. P. Renwick, Marryshow established a new paper, The West Indian, which advocated a Federation of the West Indies.The first issue (1 January 1915) promised that it would be "an immediate and accurate chronicler of current events, an untrammelled advocate of popular rights, unhampered by chains of party prejudice, an unswerving educator of the people in their duties as ...
Confederate Monument, Mississippi Department of Archives and History Building, dedicated June 1891. [2] [3] [4] In front of the Old Capitol Museum.Unusual in that a former slave and Republican member of the legislature, John F. Harris, spoke passionately in favor of it, while some whites spoke against it.