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- ↑ Sumners, Cecil L. (1998). The Governors of Mississippi. Pelican. p. 152. ISBN 9781455605217.
- 1 2 Wilkins, Jesse M. (1902). "Early Times in Wayne County". Wayne County, Mississippi, Genealogical and Historical Research.
- 1 2 3 4 Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Vol. 2. Southern Historical Publishing Association.
- ↑ Mississippi: The WPA Guide to the Magnolia State. Viking Press. 1938. pp. 210, 211. ISBN 9781604732894.
- ↑ Claiborne, John Francis Hamtramck (1880). Mississippi, as a Province, Territory and State: With Biographical Notices of Eminent Citizens. Power & Barksdale. p. 356.
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