Humphreys County, MS-GenWeb

Jaketown Site - located on the west side of State Hwy. 7, about four miles north of Belzoni, Mississippi.

Humphreys County was named for B. G. Humphreys. Benjamin Grubb Humphreys (1808-1882),
a native of Claiborne County, was educated in New Jersey and entered West Point in the same class Robert E. Lee in 1825,
but he was dismissed from the academy for participating in a Christmas frolic that turned into a riot.
He returned to Mississippi, represented Claiborne County in the State Legislature from 1839 to 1844,
and moved to Sunflower County, where he became a successful planter, in 1846.
Commissioned a captain in the Confederate army in 1861, he was promoted to brigadier general
after the battle of Gettysburg in 1863. On October 2, 1865, he was elected Governor of Mississippi
under President Johnson's Reconstruction policy, and he was re-elected in 1868;
but, with the institution of Congressional Reconstruction, he was removed from office
by federal troops on June 15, 1868. He was engaged in the insurance business in Jackson until 1877,
when he retired to his plantation in Sunflower County, where he died in December of 1882.
Benjamin G. Humphreys was the grandson of Major David Smith, for whom Smith County was named.
Created by the Fourth Constitution (1890), May 31, 1918 from
Holmes, Washington, Yazoo and Sunflower Counties.

                      County Seat -- Belzoni
                                      Humphreys County Courthouse
                                            P.O. Box 696
                                            Belzoni, MS 39038
                                            (601) 247-3065

                                    Humphreys Chancery Clerk
                                            102 Castleman St
                                            Belzoni, MS 39038-0547
                                            (601) 247-1740

       Humphreys County Library System
                                            105 South Hayden Street
                                            Belzoni, MS   39038
                                            (662) 247-3606

       The Belzoni Banner -- weekly newspaper for the city of Belzoni and Humphreys County
                                            Banner Printing
                                            115 East Jackson Street
                                            P.O. Box 610
                                            Belzoni, MS 39038-0610

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