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Mississippi Swampers are Born: Battle of Belmont and Shiloh (Chapter 1)
The Mississippi Swampers were organized at Memphis, Tennessee on June 11, 1861. It’s origins go further south though. Robert J. Humphreys was the popular sheriff of Tunica County, Mississippi and had served from 1853 to 1860. He decided to organize a company to defend the county and the new Confederate States of…
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Nancy Lindsley’s Saga on the Pass
Nancy was the daughter of Samuel and Susanna Brown. She was born in Kentucky around 1815. Her parents were married on September 14, 1807 in Garrard County, Kentucky. Samuel was an ordained minister. She had a large family and one of her brothers was Issac N. Brown, who would become famous as Captain of the…
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Frank Frost
Frank Frost was born on April 15, 1936 in Auvergne, Arkansas. Like a lot of people, it was his family that inspired him to get into music. His Father played the saxophone and it wasn’t long before Frank moved to the piano. He could also play the guitar, but the harmonica is what he…
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Trotter’s Landing (Glendale). Tunica County
The area of Southern Tunica County and Northern Coahoma County directly across from Helena is known as Trotter’s Landing. Through the years, the region has been referred to as Glendale, Mississippi as well. On an early map of Tunica County, there are several place names including Trotter’s landing, Trotter’s Point, and State Levee. This was…
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Clayton. Tunica County
Clayton is located about six miles south of Tunica on Old Highway 61. In 1940, there were two plantation stores and a population of about 20 people. There was an old brick commissary store for years at Clayton, but was recently torn down. The community started in 1885 and was named for Judge Alexander Mosby…
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Mask v. LNO & Texas Railroad
On March 2, 1885, Hamilton T. Mask purchased a ticket at Memphis from the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railroad Company to Lula which was a regular station on the line. He took passage on the first train to Lula with J.G. Haynes. Both Mask and Haynes were farmers in Coahoma County. Mask had…
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Dr. Johnathan Smith Bostick
Johnathan Smith Bostick was born in 1806 in North Carolina and moved to Tennessee with his family. He married Margaret M. Elliott on November 4, 1844 in Rutherford County. He started a medical practice in Murfreesboro. They had four children, but times were hard in those days. All of his kids died young with the…
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Dundee. Tunica County
Dundee was founded around 1885 in Southern Tunica County along the Yazoo and Missouri Valley Railroad. Since J.B. Carnes owned most of the land in this area, the community was named Carnesille. He gave land for the site of the first depot. The name was changed though because there was confusion with another community named…
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Phillips County Enters the War
The year 1861 saw much division in the state of Arkansas. Many people around Arkansas were excited about the idea of seceding from the United States. However, there were just as many families living in the mountains and hill regions of Arkansas that were against it. Phillips County was listed as being in support of…
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Tunica and Coahoma enter the Civil War
On January 20, 1861, Mississippi State troops under orders from Governor John J. Pettus occupied the unfinished U.S. fort on Ship Island in the Gulf of Mexico. One day later, the Congressional delegation from Mississippi withdrew from Washington with Senator Jefferson Davis being the last to leave. The Army of Mississippi was organized on January…
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