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- ↑ "Laws of the State of Mississippi". authority. July 2, 1871 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Clipped From The Clarion-Ledger". December 9, 1869. p. 2 – via newspapers.com.
- ↑ Lowry, Robert; McCardle, William H. (July 2, 1891). A History of Mississippi: From the Discovery of the Great River by Hernando DeSoto, Including the Earliest Settlement Made by the French Under Iberville, to the Death of Jefferson Davis. AMS Press. ISBN 9780404046101 – via Google Books.
- ↑ Rowland, Dunbar (July 2, 1907). "Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form". Southern Historical Publishing Association – via Google Books.