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by Robert Lowe2
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HI8TOKY OK MISSISSIPPI.
curvod. The long list of names given in those two counties cm-braqe a great number then and at present residing in what is now fcjrenada county ; and in these are given the history of the rival to^rns that eventually united and assisted in the building up the toVn of Grenada, now the prosperous county site.
Tho first representative in the State Sonate was Wm. Price, and 5d the Lower use, David S. Green. Mr. Price was succeeded by Col. W. H. Fitx&erald, a lawyor of high character, and who was colouel of a regiment in tho Confederate service. Mr. Green was succeeded by Capt- Wm. R. Barksdale, an able lawyer who was district attorney 6f the judicial district in which he resided, and a gentlemen of superior scholastic7attainments, and held the rank of captain in the Confederate service.
The Illinois Central Railroad traverses the county from north, to south, and its branch roaaNxjins from Grenada to Memphis. Grenada is at the junction of th\ two roads.
Other towns in the county/are fcrraysport, Elliott and Hardy.
The principal Btreams are Yalobueha and Loosa-Scoona rivers and the Abatombougue Creek.
Grenada county ha? 55,258 acres of cleared land ; avorage value per acre, $7.69/; total value, including incorporated townB, 1854,699.
The populatioi/of this county, as shown b}\the census of 1890 : Whites, 3,950;/colored, 11,024 ; total, 14,974.
SEN/yfORS. i872-’73-’74 Wm. Price. 1875 Wm. Price. i876-’77 \y< H. FitzGerald. 1878 W. M. FitzGerald. 1880 W/M. FitzGerald. 1882 W. H. FitzGerald. 1884/Jno. J. Gage.
1880 Jno. J. Gage. i8£8 J. N. McLeod.
^90 J. N. McLeod.
Rk.i'reskm\tives. David S. Green.
David 8. Green.
Wm. R. Barksdale.
Wm. McSwine.
J. J. Williams.
Wm. McSwine.
J. J. Williams.-J. C. Longstreet.
J. C. Longstreet.
Wm. McSwine.
HANCOCK COUNTY,
Named for John Hancock, one of the signers of the Declaration -of Independence, was established December 14th, 1812. The modest town of Pearlington, now largely interested in sawing and shipping lumber to different parts of the world, was intended in Territorial days to be a place of considerable commercial importance, and with this view, its founders dedicated a large area