Tag: Lula Mississippi
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Story of a Delta Merchant Family
My family came to Lula around 1940 and started a farm on Flea Harbor Road. The Mississippi Delta offered only a few pathways to having a better life in those days. You either farmed or became a merchant. My Grandfather, James “Jimmie” Dean farmed and my Grandmother, Ialeen Martin Dean opened a small grocery store.…
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The Hustlerettes and the Lula Hotel
Straub, Virginia Merrifield. Phillips County Historical Quarterly. Volume 19, Number 3 & 4. June and September 1981. Published by The Phillips County Historical Society. Helena, Arkansas. This story is taken directly from an article in the Phillips County Historical Quarterly that appeared in 1981. In a series of articles for the Helena-West Helena Twin City Tribune,…
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Bloody Affair at Lula
Frontier towns in America were rough and tumble places after the Civil War. Names like Tombstone, Abilene and Deadwood bring out images of gunfights and saloons. Well we had a number of these rough and tumble places in Mississippi too. As the 19th century came to an end civilization began to take hold in most…
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A Short History of the Lula Baptist Church
Growing up in the Lula Baptist Church during the 70s and 80s was an amazing time. There were activities for kids of all ages and a positive feeling for the future and the present shined over everyone. There were both youth and adult groups and Sunday school was always full of smiling and happy members.…
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Forgotten Heroes at Rich: Richard Harris and Henry Lucas
Richard Harris joined Company I of the 3rd Regiment U.S. Colored Cavalry on January 6, 1865 at Vicksburg. He was enrolled the following day for 3 years or the war. On his enrollment papers, he listed his age as 30 and height as 5’9. Harris was born in Crawford, Georgia as a slave before moving…
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Maggie Busby, A Lonely Grave
Maggie Elizabeth Busby was born on October 28, 1866 in Winchester, Tennessee. Winchester is a town in Franklin County on the Alabama state line. She was the daughter of Jackson Steel Miller and Priscilla Ann Estill. Maggie Miller was part of a large family with with twelve brothers and sisters. Jackson Miller is listed…
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Life and death of a Partisan
On March 16, 1863 the 3rd Iowa Cavalry marched into the small settlement of Mound Place in Northern Coahoma County. They were led by Major John Willock Noble who stationed his men at Hunt’s Mill. Hunt’s Mill was a saw mill at the center of this farming community. Even though the area was occupied territory,…
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Sam Carr
Sam Carr was born April 17, 1926 in Marvel, Arkansas. Marvel is a small town in Phillips County, just west of Helena. His parents were Robert Lee and Mary McCollum. Sam’s birth name was Samuel Lee McCollum ,so how did he become Sam Carr? Who were Robert Lee and Mary McCollum? Sam’s father…
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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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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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