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- 1 2 "Tribute of Respect", Mississippi Free Trader (December 28, 1832), p. 3.
- ↑ Franklin Lafayette Riley, School History of Mississippi: For Use in Public and Private Schools (1915), p. 380-82.
- ↑ Shana Walton and Barbara Carpenter, Ethnic Heritage in Mississippi: The Twentieth Century (2012), p. 51.
- 1 2 Mississippi, as a Province, Territory, and State: With Biographical Notices of Eminent Citizens. Power & Barksdale. 1880.
- ↑ Thomas H. Somerville, "A Sketch of the Supreme Court of Mississippi", in Horace W. Fuller, ed., The Green Bag , Vol. XI (1899), p. 506.
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