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Theron Carl Lynd (May 30, 1920– January 31, 1978) was an American circuit clerk and voter registrar in Forrest County, Mississippi, who refused to register Black people during the civil rights movement. [1] [2] Lynd was the first southern voter registrar to be held in violation of charges of discrimination under the Federal Civil Rights Acts.
William L. Sharkey (1798–1873), 25th Governor of Mississippi and Mississippi Supreme Court justice 3,336: 435.3 sq mi (1,127 km 2) Simpson County: 127: Mendenhall: SI: 1824: Formed from Copiah County: Josiah Simpson, Mississippi Territory judge and delegate to the 1817 Mississippi Constitutional Convention [25] 25,715: 590.5 sq mi (1,529 km 2 ...
Forrest County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi.As of the 2020 census, the population was 78,158. [2] Its county seat and largest city is Hattiesburg. [3] The county was created from Perry County in 1908 and named in honor of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general in the American Civil War and the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
It was an eventful day for Wes Curry and his family as Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Mike Randolph ceremonially administered the oath of office for his new role as 12th District circuit judge.
Glendale is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located in Forrest County, Mississippi, United States. Glendale is approximately 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north of Hattiesburg on Mississippi Highway 42 and a part of the Hattiesburg, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, Glendale had a population of ...
Police were told a Mississippi man had killed himself in 2018, but five years later, his 75-year-old widow has been arrested and charged with murder in the death. The Forrest County Sheriff's ...
Rawls Springs is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located in Forrest County, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 1,202. [3] Rawls Springs is approximately 6.5 miles (10.5 km) northwest of Hattiesburg near U.S. Route 49 and a part of the Hattiesburg, Mississippi Metropolitan ...
One of the first acts by the new county’s Board of Supervisors was to award a contract for construction of the county courthouse. [5] Constructed by Standard Construction Company of Meridian, Mississippi, [4] the courthouse was completed in March 1918, at a cost of US$29,515.18 [6] (equivalent to $597,875 in 2023). Within the two-story ...