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- ↑ Franklin Lafayette Riley, School History of Mississippi: For Use in Public and Private Schools (1915), p. 380-82.
- ↑ Cashin, Joan E. (July 1, 2009). First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis’s Civil War. Harvard University Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-674-02926-2.
- 1 2 THE AMERICAN ALMANAC AND REPOSITORY OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE, FOR THE YEAR 1853. 1853. p. 345.
- 1 2 3 4 Dunbar Rowland, Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form, Vol. 2 (1907), p. 985.
- ↑ 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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