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Lici Beveridge, Hattiesburg American February 13, 2024 at 6:58 AM A Mississippi Marine killed in World War II will have a final resting place more than 80 years after his death.
Hattiesburg, Laurel will honor area veterans, including Veteran of the Year Rex Hasty, with parade and ceremonies. Veterans, including Hattiesburg's Veteran of the Year, will be honored in weekend ...
In 1907, the Hattiesburg Progress was acquired by The Hattiesburg Daily News. When the U.S. entered World War I in 1917, the newspaper was renamed the Hattiesburg American. The Hattiesburg American was purchased by the Harmon family in the 1920s and was sold to the Hederman family in 1960. [2] Gannett acquired the newspaper in 1982.
McCarty was born in Shubuta, Mississippi and moved to Hattiesburg as a child. In her sixth grade, her aunt (who had no children of her own) was hospitalized and later needed homecare, so McCarty quit school, never to return. She later became a washerwoman, like her grandmother, a trade that she continued until arthritis forced her to quit in 1994.
Lici Beveridge, Hattiesburg American September 9, 2024 at 11:17 AM The city of Hattiesburg will hold its annual 9/11 ceremony to honor the first responders and civilians whose lives were lost in ...
"Funeral Services Held Tuesday For The Last American Slave", Columbian-Progress obituary, October 21, 1971 "America's Oldest Citizen Dies in Mississippi at 130", Jet, 4 November 1971, p. 10, reprinted in Magee, Kenneth F. (April 1994). The Magee Family History; As I Found Them. Copy in State of Mississippi Archives: Self Published, 1994. p. 44.
Edythe Evelyn Gandy (September 4, 1920 – December 23, 2007) was an American attorney and politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1976 to 1980. A Democrat who held several public offices throughout her career, she was the first woman elected to a statewide constitutional office in Mississippi.
The Hattiesburg American chose five places to see Christmas lights this year. You can even see some of them for free.