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Picayune incorporation recalled
iWE MCCARTY?S?Jane Frierson McCarty was born 1879 and died in 1959. John ?Uncle Butch? McCarty was born 1870 and died in 1958. They had four children, all of whom are living today: G*liL MeQurijrof Bogaiusa, La., K.G. of Bay St. Louis, Andrew of Nicholson and Bonnie M. Stewart of Indianapolis, Ind.
By TOM J. WEAVER
The first officials of the village of Picayune were appointed by Governor Vardaman and were J.J. (Jim Jack) Mitchell, mayor; C.A. Thornhill, marshal; J.L. Megehee, S.B. Whitfield and O.L. Mitchell, aldermen. The corporate limits of the village then included all of sections 15 and 14 and part of section 11 and were not extended until about ten years ago when the lines were extended westward to take Goodyear in the corporation.
Newcomers to Picayune do not understand why the northern limits of Picayune were Gerrymandered as they are but this was due to conditions existing at the time the village was incorporated.
At that time Mr. Henry Megehee owned a large saw mill located on the Northeastern road just north of Hobolochitto creek and near as many people lived in his millquarters as lived south of the creek. It is noticed that in going north on the Jackson
* Highway that you are out of the corporation when on the bridge and cross back into the corporation just north of the bridge. When the charter of the village was first applied for, we knew that it would soon be necessary to rebuild a new bridge across Bola as the old wooden bridge was in a very
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