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Minnie M. Geddings was born in 1869 to Mary Geddings and William Geddings in Lexington, Mississippi. [2] Though not much is known about her early life, it is possible that her family fared better than many other Black families in the Mississippi Delta as her parents owned a restaurant and she was able to attend Fisk University, a Historically Black University in Nashville, Tennessee. [3]
Allen, his brother, and mother all had to work to help support the family. Upon graduating from Central High School, Allen enrolled at the University of Mississippi. Thompson married Evana Shelby on August 22, 1929, in Port Gibson, Mississippi. He was offered and accepted a teaching position at Blue Mountain College in North Mississippi.
Holmes County is a county in the U.S. state of Mississippi; its western border is formed by the Yazoo River and the eastern border by the Big Black River.The western part of the county is within the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta.
Dr. Thomas O’Brien and his wife Ruth Reardon O’Brien, the parents of late night comedian Conan O’Brien, have died three days apart. Thomas was 95 and Ruth was 92. Thomas died on Monday, Dec ...
Lexington is a city in and the county seat of Holmes County, Mississippi, United States. The county was organized in 1833 and the city in 1836. The county was organized in 1833 and the city in 1836. The population was 1,731 at the 2010 census , [ 2 ] down from 2,025 at the 2000 census.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Mississippi that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
George W. White: 1874–1878 Wilkinson c. 1841 –? James J. B. White: 1848–1852 Issaquena, Yazoo, Washington, Bolivar Whig 1802/03–? James M. White: 1932–1936 24th Democratic 1902–1966 [148] John R. White: 1984–2004 Itawamba, Lee, Prentiss, Tishomingo Democratic 1937– Richard White: 1989–2008 Hinds Republican 1949– Royce White ...
Lexington's Civil War Battle of the Hemp Bales was still a recent memory when Stephen G. Wentworth founded Wentworth Military Academy in 1880. By the 1870s, the town had already attained the reputation as the "Athens of the West" for its many academic institutions. Lexington was home to three notable schools for girls.