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Founders of Rich, the Richberger Family
Jacob Richberger was born around 1835 in Russian Poland. He and his wife Fanny along with his son George migrated to the United States in 1864 and settled in New York. After the Civil War, Jacob moved to Mississippi for better opportunities. He left his wife and son to tend to their store. According…
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Stories about the Lula Depot and railroads. Send in and I will add your post to this page. Your Name will appear first.
Buddy Dean. 9/21/2018 There was a guy who stayed around the depot all the time named Shine. I would see him sleeping under the platform where cotton was loaded. Lee Horace Bass took care of him, but he just basically stayed around town doing odd jobs. One time I let Shine wash my car when…
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The Railroad at Lula
Lula was located at mile post 56.4 from Memphis.
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Hamlin. Tunica County. (Ghost town)
Hamlin was located along the tracks between Lula and Dundee. It is easy to find even though not much is left of this village today. Hamlin was located in a curve where Old Highway 61 went over the railroad tracks. Today only a graveyard remains which was located behind an old church that was torn…
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Jim and Ida Dean, Part of My Story
Woodlawn is a large cemetery in Sumner, Mississippi. In order to reach it, you have to turn by Cassidy Bayou. If you are coming from the square, take a right on the street running behind the bank. It will take you to Woodlawn. If you continue to follow the road, you will end up in…
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Lula, Mississippi. Coahoma County
That’s what Lula has been for more than a 100 years. Don’t count it out. Lula is gonna be here for a 100 more.
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Ghost of the Little Girl
My Grandparents In the early 1940s, an event occurred near by Grandparents house which was really tramatic. Although the event didn’t happen in the house, it happened nearby. A family lived next to my grandparents who had a young daughter about 8 years old. She was an inquisitive little girl, with long blond hair,…
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Essie B. Easley. Dowd Cemetery, Tunica County
During World War II, he was awarded the Good Conduct Medal and received high grades on his work with the 401st Quartermaster Truck Company.
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Nash’s Landing, Tunica County (Ghost town)
Dr. Charles Nash was born in January, 1824 in Missouri. On December 12,1855, Dr. Charles E. Nash moved to Tunica County, Mississippi from Helena, Arkansas. He had moved to Helena shortly before 1850 from Missouri. On the 1850 U.S. Census, he is listed as living in Helena, Arkansas in a hotel owned by J.M.…
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A Haunted Curve
When my family moved to Flea Harbor Road in 1940, there was a giant oak tree in a deep curve in the road directly in front of the house. From that curve ran the drive way passing the house and ending at a farm shop. A few years later a neighbor, who lived across the…
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