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The Lockwood
Plantation Home was owned by James P. Heath |
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A Mississippi River Steamboat
docked in Issaquena County |
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A tent city erected for
the citizens of Issaquena County during the Great Mississippi River Flood
of 1927 |
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The Great Mississippi River
Flood of 1927. Pictured are two employees of the Heath Family removing
chickens from a flooded area |
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An Issaquena County plantation
scene. Pictured is Tom Stewart, plantation manager and an unidentified
farm worker |
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A view behind Lockwood Plantation
home. Lockwood Plantation was owned by the Heath family of Issaquena County |
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An Issaquena County Hunting
Party at Deer Range Plantation. John Wade Heath II is on the pony |
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The main house on Deer Range
Plantation |
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The Heath Family: Standing
(left to right) are Nona Hull Heath, wife of Dr. T.A. Heath; John Wade
Heath I and Maggie Heath |
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"The Grader" Issaquena County,
Mississippi |
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Resident in a supplies boat
during the Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927 in Issaquena County |
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The Railroad Section Foreman's
House (built ca. 1875), located at Valley Park, is listed on the National
Register of Historic Places |
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The old Issaquena County
Courthouse in Mayersville. The photograph was taken during the 1930s |
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Mary M. Stewart. wife
of Colonel John Heath. She was the daughter of Thomas Stewart, a planter
of Copiah County |
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Old Issaquena County Jail
House. The photograph was taken during the early 1930s |
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Josephus C. Newman was a
state representative from Issaquena County for seventeen years. During
1917, he and his wife, Minnie Bell Prine Newman, moved from Copiah County
to the railroad section house at Valley Park in Issaquena County |
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Minnie Bell Prine Newman,
wife of Josephus C. Newman of Valley Park |
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Dr. T.A. Heath (born 14
July 1854) was the second child born to the union of John and Mary (Stewart)
Heath of Issaquena county |
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Nona Hull Heath of Claiborne
county and wife of Dr. T. A Heath, was the youngest daughter of Capt.
P.C. Hull, a planter of that county |
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John Heath I was born 27
November 1822 in Rodney, Jefferson County, Miss., and was the son of James
Adolphus and Julia Ann (Roberts) Meyer Heath (born 15 October 1779 in Pennsylvania).
During 1859 he came to Issaquena County |
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James Person Heath was born
in 1858, the son of John and Mary Stewart Heath.. He received his early
education in Clinton, Hinds county, Miss., and during 1890 he married Miss
Lurena Smith, sister of Robert Smith, and daughter of R.M. and Margaret
Smith |
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Children of John Wade Heath:
John W. Heath II (standing) with sisters Mary (left seated) and Lucille
(right seated) Heath |
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The John Wade Heath II family
on a summer leisure buggy ride during the 1890s in Issaquena County |
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Lurena Smith Heath with
her children on Lockwood Plantation in Issaquena County |
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Hyman Kestenbaum and wife,
Fannie. Hyman Kestenbaum was a store merchant and farmer in Issaquena County |
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James Adolphus Heath was
born 27 March 1771. He married Julia Ann (Roberts) Meyer (born 15 October
1779) He came to Mississippi during the early 1800s and was the patriarch
of the Issaquena Heath family |
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Deer Range Plantation Cotton
Gin in Issaquena County |
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The Old Bell at the Issaquena
County Courthouse in Mayersville. The photograph was taken during the 1940s |
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A Tenant House on Deer Range
Plantation
The photograph was taken during the 1940s |
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The Bridge Across Steele's
Bayou near Deer Range Plantation. The photograph was taken during the 1940s |
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Deer Range Planation sheep
field with levee in the background |
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W.T. Stewart Home in Issaquena
County |
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Harvesting Clover Seed on
Deer Range Plantation during 1941 |
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Horse and Buggy at Lockwood
Plantation, owned by Colonel John Heath |
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Louis and Grace Kestenbaum,children
of Hyman Kestenbaum on Hyman's farm not to far from the Kestenbaum store
in Fitler |
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Mrs Ray Lum on a visit to
the Delta is shown on a burro at Lockwood plantation in Issaquena County |
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Workers on Lockwood Plantation
cleaning a deer |
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Grace Kestenbaum in front
of Hyman Kestenbaum's house at Fitler |
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The Heath home in Port Gibson,
Mississippi was built during the 1840s. The home belonged to Adolphus Heath,
the patriarch of the Issaquena County Heath family |
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A young child on the grounds
of Lockwood Plantation in Issaquena County |
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Chickens on the grounds
of the main house on Deer Range Plantation |
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Frank Stewart(brother of
T.W. Stewart), T.W. Stewart(cousin Tom), and T.W. Stewart's son Wallace
Stewart. This photograph was taken at T.W. Stewart's home not far from
Five Mile Lake where the fish were caught |