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Powell, Emanuel
Price, Leontyne
Staten, Andrew Jackson
Staten, Harvey
Staten, Thomas
Sumner, Joseph Burton
Till, Emmett
Tucker, Wesley Edward
Tucker, William G. "Bill"
White, Elvira (Collins)
Powell, Emanuel
Born: Dec 20, 1925,
Date of Death: April 1975, Tutwiler, Mississippi
Burial: , Old Antioch Sumner , MS , Tallahatchie Co
Biography: Emanuel Powell worked on the railroad in Tallahatchie,Ms. Little is known because all of his children were distant from him. His brother and sisters left the town of Tutwiler, Ms and swore not to return. He died from a railroad injury.
Submitted by: Teresa Powell,
Email: [email protected]
Staten, Andrew Jackson
Born: March 13, 1853, Cascilla, Tallahatchie Co Ms
Married: January 1870, Tallahatchie County MS
Spouse: Nancy E. Shannon
Date of Death: February 26, 1927, Tallahatchie Co Ms
Burial: , Henson Cemetery, Cascilla Ms, Tallahatchie Co
Biography: Andrew Jackson Staten was the fourth child of five children born to Thomas Staton and Selia/Celia. He was born and reared at Cascilla Ms,-He and Nancy reared Seven children. James E., Emma L., Hugh Barney, Andrew Reddell, Allen L, Lena Roxane, Ola Lola, and Calvin Lee. were their names..
Submitted by: Helen E. Staten Arnold,
Email: [email protected]
Staten, Harvey
Born: 1805, North Carolina
Married: 1820's, Tn
Spouse: Elizabeth "Betsy" J. Sherrod
Date of Death: abt 1859, Tallahatchie Co Ms
Burial: , Tallahatchie County MS
Biography: According to census records, Harvey Staton was born in N.C. He went to TN in the early 1820's. He is listed on the 1840 and 1841 Tallahatchie Countuy Census. He had several of the original land patents in Tallahatchie County Ms. Harvey Staton served on the Police Court in 1838 when Charleston was voted the county seat. He had a power of attorney for the Bishop Brothers in 1846 from Mississippi to Arkansas. He is listed as the man who settled Cascilla in 1877 when it became a voting precinct. His wife's family, the Sherrods, and his had been friends for many years from North Carolina to Tennessee and moving together to Tallahatchie Co. They reared 3 sons, Robert, Arthur and Levi.
Submitted by: Helen E. Staten Arnold,
Email: [email protected]
Staten, Thomas
Born: abt 1825, North Carolina
Married: February 02, 1845, Carroll County Ms.
Spouse: Selia or Celia
Date of Death:After 1880 , Tallahatchie County Ms
Burial:
Biography: Thomas Staten came to Tallahatchie Co. in the latter 1830's when it was opened up for sale, receiving one of the original land patents. He Was teh son of Thomas Sr., and Elizabeth Everett Staton. He was in Tn with Harvey Staton and then they migrated to Ms. The first Census 1841 list both of these men and several others who were in Tennessee at the same time Do not know how they are related. Thomas was married to Sela or Celia (spelled differently on different census records). They had 5 children, Everett, Elizabeth, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and Nancy
Submitted by: Helen E. Staten Arnold,
Email: [email protected]
Sumner, Joseph Burton
BN: Oct 11, 1837 in S.C.
Married: June 10 1858 in Walker Co., AL to Susannah Ferguson
DOD: Feb. 15, 1920 in Bentonville, AK
Buried: Indian Mound Cemetery, Sumner, Tallahatchie Co., MS
J.B. Sumner served in the 22nd AL Volunteer Infantry, Co. A in the Confederate States of America Army. He was wounded during the operations before Murfreesboro, TN the evening of Dec. 31, 1862 having the muscle in his right arm shot off. He returned home, and moved his family to Tallahatche Co., from Alabama around Jan. 1872. Joseph Burton Sumner built the first general store and post office combined in Sumner in 1885, where he was also the first postmaster. He donated the land for the right-of-way and park to the railroad company in 1888. When Sumner incorporated in 1900, J.B. Sumner was elected the first mayor. He donated the lots for the first jail and the courthouse built in 1902. He taught his own children and the children of his tenants at a school located between Webb and Sumner. The school had a 4 month term at that time. He was a was a cotton planter and in the mercantile business for many years. He lived the last 9 years of his life in Bentonville, AR with his daughter, Mrs. W.E. (Martha Caroline "Tina") Ammons.
Submitted by: Lela Evans
Email: [email protected]
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Till, Emmett
Born: 1941, Chicago, Cook Co. Illinois
Date of Death: August 1955, Money, Tallahatchie Co. Mississippi
Burial: , Chicago
Biography: In late August, 1955, the body of a fourteen-year- old young black man, Emmett Till, was found floating in the Tallahatchie River of Mississippi—brutally beaten, one eye gouged out, shot in the head, and weighted down by a cotton-gin fan affixed to his neck with barbed wire. Several days earlier, Till had been kidnapped at gunpoint from a relative’s home by the husband, and his brother-in- law, of a white woman, he allegedly whistled at. When the news reached Till’s mother, Mamie Till, who had moved to Chicago from Tallahatchie Co. Mississippi only a few years before, she refused to let her son be buried in Mississippi (where he had been vacationing when he was killed) and demanded that his body be sent home. Mamie Till Bradley insisted on holding a four-day open-casket funeral in Chicago, so that everyone could be a witness to the brutality of the murder of a black child by white racism in Tallahatchie Co. The funeral of Emmett Till became one of the largest and most powerful events of the Civil Rights era. The funeral and the trial, at which the two white men, were acquitted, received unprecedented amounts of national media attention and inspired a whole generation of Civil Rights activists.
Submitted by:
James Windsor,
Email: [email protected]
Tucker, Wesley
Edward
Born: February 09, 1874, Yalobusha Co MS
Married: November 27, 1898, Tallahatchie Co Ms Charleston, MS
Spouse: Mary Susie Sumner Tucker
Date of Death: November 10, 1955, Meridan MS
Burial: November 12, 1955, Friendship Cemetary North of Charleston,
MS
Biography: Wesley Edward or "Ed" married Susie Sumner, granddaughter of Joseph Burton Sumner founder of Sumner, MS, on November 27, 1898 in Tallahatchie Co Ms. According to Ed and Susie's daughter, Ethel, Susie's family disapproved of this marriage because Ed was of Indian descent. This marriage had many ups and downs. Ed was a known alcoholic, gambler, and womanizer. He and Susie lived apart much of the time. The couple's younger two daughters, Ethel and Sally knew very of little of their father. Susie later divorced Ed and married a older man named Mr. Williams of Minter City, MS. Ed never remarried. He died November 10, 1955 in the East Mississippi State Hospital in Meridan, Ms complications of cardiovascular failure, other contributing causes of death were carcinona of the rectum and senile psychosis. He was buried in the Friendship Cem. North of Charleston, MS in an unmarked grave.
Submitted by: Lisa Tucker
Email: ltucker@network-
one.com
Tucker, William G.
"Bill"
Born: February 09, 1874, Yalobusha Co MS
Married: January 20, 1873, Yalobusha Co Ms
Spouse: Nancy Jane Simmons
Date of Death:
Burial:
Biography: William G "Bill" Tucker married Nancy Jane Simmons, daughter of William and Sarah Page Simmons, on January 20, 1873 in Yalobusha Co Ms. They had at least five children. The children were: l. Wesley Edward "Ed", 2. Willie, 3. Annie, 4. Heneriene, 5. Bertha Mae. Henriene first married a ?Patterson but later divorced. Then she married Leroy Holland in Tallahatchie Co Ms. Bertha Mae Tucker married Abe Goad and they had 5 children. Her second marriage was to Will Fillyaw and they had 2 children. Nothing is known of the other sisters--Willie and Annie. It is possible that William G "Bill" Tucker was the son of Roden A and Rhoda Hughes Tucker. This family is shown on the 1860 Calhoun Co Ms census living in Sarepta having 4 children and one of them was William born ca. 1854. The only document I can find to link our William to this family is this 1860 census data but we know from family tradition that the Tuckers were of Indian descent that migrated to Mississippi over the years from the Trail of Tears movement.
Submitted by: Lisa Tucker
Email: ltucker@network-
one.com
White, Elvira
Born: 1858-1860 - (est.) MS
Married: December 26, 1872, Tallahatchie County, MS
Spouse: Collins, Crawford
Date of Death: (1940-1942) – (est.) Charleston, MS
Burial: Charleston, MS, Tallahatchie County
Elvira White-Collins was born in Tallahatchie County MS, between 1858 and 1860. She was born on the property owned by the infamous civil war hero, Captain Benjamin Wynn. Her parents were Mr. and Mrs. David {Mary} White, Sr. A partial list of siblings included David White, Jr., Fannie and Dolphus.
The Tallahatchie County District #1 – Colored Marriage Records, reflect the marriage date of Crawford Collins to Elvira White as December 26, 1872.
Elvira was a housewife and proud mother of nine children, Mary Frances, John Elmore, Joseph Howard, Addie Lou, Lane Lee, Hattie, Aldolphus, Orien, (“Love”) and their youngest child, son Lacy. She is remembered as having goodies on hand for her grandchildren during visits to her home, especially pecans.
In the mid 1930’s Elvira had the unique opportunity to participate in the historically significant U.S. Slave Narratives. The interviews were conducted to chronicle the life stories of former slaves. The Federal Writer’s Project (of the Works Progress Administration - WPA) was instrumental in conducting the interviews. Her personal narrative recounts an incident told to her by her mother involving Union soldiers entering their log cabin and cutting off the head of her pet rooster.
Elvira died between 1940-1942 and is buried in Tallahatchie County, MS.
Submitted By: Judith Collins
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