History of Chickasaw Co, MS
Information submitted by Denise Wells
Source:
Lowry, Robert and McCardle, William H. A History of Mississippi,
from
the Discovery of the Great River by Hernando DeSoto, Including the
Earliest
Settlement Made by the French Under Iberville, to the Death of
Jefferson
Davis [1541-1889]. Jackson, Miss.: R. H. Henry & Co., 1891.
Pages
453-456.
The Commissioners appointed to organize the county were John Delashmit, Richard Elliott, Thos. Ivy, Mr. Gates and Benjamin Anderson.
Among the early settlers were Lewis Isabell, Thos. Lewis and Chas. Gates, Thos. Reed, Warren Harrell, Lewis Moore, John W. Donaldson, John May, Headin Harris, John McIntosh, who in an early day was surveyor of the county, and the father of the late John McIntosh, who was the father of that excellent lawyer and genial gentleman, Hon. J. R. McIntosh, who served the county most acceptable as member of the Legislature, and is now a senior partner of one of the leading law firms of East Mississippi, located in the city of Meridian; Judge T. N. Martin, who was a member of the State Senate for four years, the father-in-law of Hon. W. S. Bates, who was probate judge of Pontotoc county, and now an honored member of the Houston bar; Christopher Orr, father of Hon. Jas. L. Orr, of South Carolina and Hon. J. A. Orr, of the city of Columbus; the former was Governor of his native State, member of Congress and Minister to Russia; the latter was the first Colonel of the Thirty-first Mississippi Regiment, member of the Confederate Congress, and for some years judge of the judicial district in which he resides, and is now prominent in the practice of his profession; Robert Pulliam, Benjamin S. Pulliam, father of Major Thos. Pulliam of the Thirty-first Mississippi Regiment; Dr. N. S. Williams, a prominent and leading physician, the father of R. P. Williams, a lawyer of high character in the city of Meridian; Richard Farr, the father-in-law of Rev. Thos. J. Lowry and Eli Gordon; Benjamin Kilgore, who represented the county fifty years ago, the grandfather of Gen. J. H. Brinker, of the National Guard, who resides in West Point; Ezekiel Fuller, who was a soldier at the Battle of New Orleans; Jos. Buchanan, the father of Thos. J. Buchanan, Sr., who is the father of Judge J. W. Buchanan, for two terms a member of the Legislature, Circuit Judge of his judicial district for several years, when he resigned and resumed the practice of his profession and is now the attorney for the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad, and the father of Dr. J. M. Buchanan, an accomplished physician, and now Superintendent of the East Mississippi Insane Asylum at Meridian, and of Thos. J. Buchanan, a prominent lawyer of Okolona; John Bell, who was a member of the Senate from the county for one term; Benjamin Bugg, Henry R. Carter, T. J. Griffin, who was a member of both branches of the Legislature; Major J. W. Wheeler, Col. Henry Shackleford, who was the father-in-law of Gen. W. F. Tucker; Adam La Grone, Captain Geo. Bowen, Anderson Beene, C. C. Marable, Samuel R. Evans, father of Major J. S. Evans, of the Eleventh Mississippi Regiment, and the father-in-law of Hon. W. M. Inge, who was Speaker of the House of Representatives; Henry R. Carter, who was the first lawyer who located at Houston, the county site, and was very soon followed by George Freeman, the father of General G. Y. Freeman, of the city of Jackson; later Cyrus D. Baldwin and a few years later General W. S. Featherston, who has been prominent in the State from his early manhood. When quiet a young man he was twice elected to Congress; during the war a gallant soldier with the rank of Brigadier-General; after the cessation of hostilities, he respresented his county (Marshall) two terms in the Legislature, was subsequently Circuit Judge for six years, retired from the bench and resumed the practice of his profession and served his county most acceptably as delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1890. Afterwards came the late General W. F. Tucker, who first engaged in teaching school, devoting his leisure time to reading law; he served as Probate Judge of the county. Soon after his admission to the bar he took high rank as a lawyer; during the war he was Colonel of the 41st Mississippi regiment, and promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General. In 1876 and 1878 he represented the county in the Legislature and was a prominent figure in the politics of northeast Mississippi. He was the father of the present accomplished State Librarian, Miss Rosa Lee Tucker. He was a man of great purity of character, and a thorough christian gentleman.
The principal tows in the county are Houston, the county site, incorporated in May, 1837, a pretty little town with an excellent population; Okolona, of probably two thousand inhabitants, which is the location of the 2d Judicial District, where the circuit and chancery courts are held. This town is located in a rich and fertile prairie on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and is a place of very considerable commercial importance, with excellent church and educational advantages, and an intelligent population. Palo Alto, Sparta and Buena Vista, are prosperous villages away from the railroad.
The principal streams are Houlka, Long, Bogue, Culia, Sachatoncha, Chico, Dicks, Soctahoma and Taloboncla creeks.
The Mobile and Ohio railroad traverse the eastern border of the county for about fifteen miles.
Chickasaw county has 129,933 acres of cleared land; average value per acre as reported by the assessor, $6.15. The total value of cleared lands, including incorporated towns, $1,218,256.
Chickasaw has a variety of lands and is classed as one of the most desirable counties of the State.
The population of this county as shown by the census of 1890 -- whites, 8,455; colored, 11,436; total 19,891.
Senators Representatives
1837 John Bell Benjamin Bugg
1838 - 39 John Bell Henry R. Carter
1840 John Bell Benjamin Kilgore
1841 Wm. H. Duke Benjamin Kilgore
1842 Jas. Walton ------- Crawford
1843 Littlebury Gilliam ------ Crawford
1844-'46 John H. Williams Jas. F. Walker
1848 W. R. Cannon Jas. F. Walker, R. Steele
1850 W. R. Cannon T. J. Griffin, Wm. K. Harrison
1852 R. G. Steele Jas. McCroy
1854 R. G. Steele Eli Abbott, Uriah Porter
1856 J. W. Rice J. M. Thompson, W. A. Baldwyn
1857 Chas. R. Jordon J. M. Thompson, R. G. Steele
1858 Chas. R. Jordon J. I. S. Hill, W. F. Walker
1859-'60-'61 J. M. Thompson J. I. S. Hill, T. E. Bugg
1861-'62 J. T. Griffin R. M. Gann, J. R. Gladney
1865-'66-'67 T. N. Martin C. C. M. Marable, Benjamin Murry
1870-'71 F. H. Little, F. M. Abbott R. G. Underwood, A. Henderson
1872-'73 F. H. Little, F. M. Abblot J. R. McIntosh, J. I. Evans
1874-'75 Nathan Shirley, F. H. Little Gen. White, Henry Harrison
1876-'77 R. O. Reynolds, Nathan Shirley Wm. F. Tucker, J. A. Wilkinson
1878 R. O. Reynolds, J. T. Griffin Wm. F. Tucker, J. L. S. Hill
1880 R. O. Reynolds, J. T. Griffin J. W. Buchanan, J. L. S. Hill
1882 R. O. Reynolds, Samuel I. Wilson J. W. Buchanan, N. B. Crawford
1884 Samuel I. Wilson N. B. Crawford, W. G. Orr
1886 Wm. T. Houston Frank Barkitt, J. A. McArthur
1888 Wm. T. Houston Frank Burkitt, J. W. Winter
1890 R. Wharton J. M. Trice, J. W. Winter
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Chickasaw
County
Was established February
9th, 1836, and so named in memory of the Chickasaw Indians, one of the
most powerful, warlike, implacable and cruel of the aborgiinal tribes
that ever inhabited the soil of Mississippi.The Commissioners appointed to organize the county were John Delashmit, Richard Elliott, Thos. Ivy, Mr. Gates and Benjamin Anderson.
Among the early settlers were Lewis Isabell, Thos. Lewis and Chas. Gates, Thos. Reed, Warren Harrell, Lewis Moore, John W. Donaldson, John May, Headin Harris, John McIntosh, who in an early day was surveyor of the county, and the father of the late John McIntosh, who was the father of that excellent lawyer and genial gentleman, Hon. J. R. McIntosh, who served the county most acceptable as member of the Legislature, and is now a senior partner of one of the leading law firms of East Mississippi, located in the city of Meridian; Judge T. N. Martin, who was a member of the State Senate for four years, the father-in-law of Hon. W. S. Bates, who was probate judge of Pontotoc county, and now an honored member of the Houston bar; Christopher Orr, father of Hon. Jas. L. Orr, of South Carolina and Hon. J. A. Orr, of the city of Columbus; the former was Governor of his native State, member of Congress and Minister to Russia; the latter was the first Colonel of the Thirty-first Mississippi Regiment, member of the Confederate Congress, and for some years judge of the judicial district in which he resides, and is now prominent in the practice of his profession; Robert Pulliam, Benjamin S. Pulliam, father of Major Thos. Pulliam of the Thirty-first Mississippi Regiment; Dr. N. S. Williams, a prominent and leading physician, the father of R. P. Williams, a lawyer of high character in the city of Meridian; Richard Farr, the father-in-law of Rev. Thos. J. Lowry and Eli Gordon; Benjamin Kilgore, who represented the county fifty years ago, the grandfather of Gen. J. H. Brinker, of the National Guard, who resides in West Point; Ezekiel Fuller, who was a soldier at the Battle of New Orleans; Jos. Buchanan, the father of Thos. J. Buchanan, Sr., who is the father of Judge J. W. Buchanan, for two terms a member of the Legislature, Circuit Judge of his judicial district for several years, when he resigned and resumed the practice of his profession and is now the attorney for the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad, and the father of Dr. J. M. Buchanan, an accomplished physician, and now Superintendent of the East Mississippi Insane Asylum at Meridian, and of Thos. J. Buchanan, a prominent lawyer of Okolona; John Bell, who was a member of the Senate from the county for one term; Benjamin Bugg, Henry R. Carter, T. J. Griffin, who was a member of both branches of the Legislature; Major J. W. Wheeler, Col. Henry Shackleford, who was the father-in-law of Gen. W. F. Tucker; Adam La Grone, Captain Geo. Bowen, Anderson Beene, C. C. Marable, Samuel R. Evans, father of Major J. S. Evans, of the Eleventh Mississippi Regiment, and the father-in-law of Hon. W. M. Inge, who was Speaker of the House of Representatives; Henry R. Carter, who was the first lawyer who located at Houston, the county site, and was very soon followed by George Freeman, the father of General G. Y. Freeman, of the city of Jackson; later Cyrus D. Baldwin and a few years later General W. S. Featherston, who has been prominent in the State from his early manhood. When quiet a young man he was twice elected to Congress; during the war a gallant soldier with the rank of Brigadier-General; after the cessation of hostilities, he respresented his county (Marshall) two terms in the Legislature, was subsequently Circuit Judge for six years, retired from the bench and resumed the practice of his profession and served his county most acceptably as delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1890. Afterwards came the late General W. F. Tucker, who first engaged in teaching school, devoting his leisure time to reading law; he served as Probate Judge of the county. Soon after his admission to the bar he took high rank as a lawyer; during the war he was Colonel of the 41st Mississippi regiment, and promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General. In 1876 and 1878 he represented the county in the Legislature and was a prominent figure in the politics of northeast Mississippi. He was the father of the present accomplished State Librarian, Miss Rosa Lee Tucker. He was a man of great purity of character, and a thorough christian gentleman.
The principal tows in the county are Houston, the county site, incorporated in May, 1837, a pretty little town with an excellent population; Okolona, of probably two thousand inhabitants, which is the location of the 2d Judicial District, where the circuit and chancery courts are held. This town is located in a rich and fertile prairie on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and is a place of very considerable commercial importance, with excellent church and educational advantages, and an intelligent population. Palo Alto, Sparta and Buena Vista, are prosperous villages away from the railroad.
The principal streams are Houlka, Long, Bogue, Culia, Sachatoncha, Chico, Dicks, Soctahoma and Taloboncla creeks.
The Mobile and Ohio railroad traverse the eastern border of the county for about fifteen miles.
Chickasaw county has 129,933 acres of cleared land; average value per acre as reported by the assessor, $6.15. The total value of cleared lands, including incorporated towns, $1,218,256.
Chickasaw has a variety of lands and is classed as one of the most desirable counties of the State.
The population of this county as shown by the census of 1890 -- whites, 8,455; colored, 11,436; total 19,891.
Senators Representatives
1837 John Bell Benjamin Bugg
1838 - 39 John Bell Henry R. Carter
1840 John Bell Benjamin Kilgore
1841 Wm. H. Duke Benjamin Kilgore
1842 Jas. Walton ------- Crawford
1843 Littlebury Gilliam ------ Crawford
1844-'46 John H. Williams Jas. F. Walker
1848 W. R. Cannon Jas. F. Walker, R. Steele
1850 W. R. Cannon T. J. Griffin, Wm. K. Harrison
1852 R. G. Steele Jas. McCroy
1854 R. G. Steele Eli Abbott, Uriah Porter
1856 J. W. Rice J. M. Thompson, W. A. Baldwyn
1857 Chas. R. Jordon J. M. Thompson, R. G. Steele
1858 Chas. R. Jordon J. I. S. Hill, W. F. Walker
1859-'60-'61 J. M. Thompson J. I. S. Hill, T. E. Bugg
1861-'62 J. T. Griffin R. M. Gann, J. R. Gladney
1865-'66-'67 T. N. Martin C. C. M. Marable, Benjamin Murry
1870-'71 F. H. Little, F. M. Abbott R. G. Underwood, A. Henderson
1872-'73 F. H. Little, F. M. Abblot J. R. McIntosh, J. I. Evans
1874-'75 Nathan Shirley, F. H. Little Gen. White, Henry Harrison
1876-'77 R. O. Reynolds, Nathan Shirley Wm. F. Tucker, J. A. Wilkinson
1878 R. O. Reynolds, J. T. Griffin Wm. F. Tucker, J. L. S. Hill
1880 R. O. Reynolds, J. T. Griffin J. W. Buchanan, J. L. S. Hill
1882 R. O. Reynolds, Samuel I. Wilson J. W. Buchanan, N. B. Crawford
1884 Samuel I. Wilson N. B. Crawford, W. G. Orr
1886 Wm. T. Houston Frank Barkitt, J. A. McArthur
1888 Wm. T. Houston Frank Burkitt, J. W. Winter
1890 R. Wharton J. M. Trice, J. W. Winter
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