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Malachi Collins was a minister, entrepreneur and activist. He established the funeral home that Clarie would one day run and helped found the Jackson, Mississippi branch of the NAACP. Mary Collins was also active in social justice work and became the first black librarian in the state of Mississippi. [3]
Collins is a city in Covington County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 2,586 at the 2010 census. [ 3 ] It is the county seat of Covington County.
U.S. Highway 49; U.S. Highway 84; Covington County is crossed both north-to-south and east-to-west by four-laned state highways. Highway 49, which runs north–south through all three municipalities and is commonly known as Mississippi's Main Street, connects the state's three largest cities—Jackson, Gulfport, and Hattiesburg—to Covington County as well as cities such as Wiggins, Magee ...
The Smith family continued the mortuary business in the 1940s and a family named Collins bought it in the 1980s and renamed it Smith Collins funeral home until 2015. The Holliday House was a ...
Service Corporation International is an American provider of funeral goods and services as well as cemetery property and services. It is headquartered in Neartown, Houston, Texas, and operates secondary corporate offices in Jefferson, Louisiana (near New Orleans). [5] [6] SCI operates more than 1500 funeral homes and 400 cemeteries. [1]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Jackson County, Mississippi, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map.
According to the 2020 United States Census, Mississippi is the 32nd-most populous state, with 2,949,965 inhabitants and the 31st largest by land area, spanning 46,923.27 square miles (121,530.7 km 2) of land. [1] Mississippi is divided into 82 counties and contains 300 municipalities, consisting of cities, towns, and villages.
Carter’s funeral is the first for a president since George H.W. Bush’s in 2018, bringing a rare moment of civility to politics as all of the remaining U.S. presidents came together