Varina Anne Banks Davis was the only First Lady of the Confederate States of America, and the longtime second wife of President Jefferson Davis. She moved to the Presidential Mansion in Richmond, Virginia, in mid-1861, and lived there for the remainder of the Civil War. Born and raised in the South and educated in Philadelphia, she had family on both sides of the conflict and unconventional views for a woman in her public role. She did not support the Confederacy's position on slavery, and was ambivalent about the war.
Washington is an unincorporated community in Adams County, Mississippi, United States. Located along the lower Mississippi, 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Natchez, it was the second and longest-serving capital of the Mississippi Territory.
The Randolph family of Virginia is a prominent political family, whose members contributed to the politics of Colonial Virginia and Virginia after statehood. They are descended from the Randolphs of Morton Morrell, Warwickshire, England. The first Randolph in America was Edward Fitz Randolph, who settled in Massachusetts in 1630. His nephew, William Randolph, later came to Virginia as an orphan in 1669. He made his home at Turkey Island along the James River. Because of their numerous progeny, William Randolph and his wife, Mary Isham Randolph, have been referred to as "the Adam and Eve of Virginia". The Randolph family was the wealthiest and most powerful family in 18th-century Virginia.
Thomas Hinds was an American soldier, politician and slaveholder from the state of Mississippi, who served in the United States Congress from 1828 to 1831.
Duncan Stewart was a veteran of the American Revolutionary War, slave owner, frontiersman, and politician. He holds the very rare distinction of having served three separate states state legislatures over his life, in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Mississippi.
James Thomas Harrison was an American politician who served as a Deputy from Mississippi to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862.
Joseph Emory Davis was an American lawyer who became one of the wealthiest planters in Mississippi in the antebellum era; he owned thousands of acres of land and was among the nine men in Mississippi who owned more than 300 slaves. He was the elder brother of Jefferson Davis and acted as his surrogate father for several years. The younger Davis became a politician, U.S. Senator, and later President of the Confederacy.
Dunbar Rowland was an American attorney, archivist, and historian. He was Director of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History from its inception in 1902, until his death in 1937.
Livingston is an unincorporated community located in Madison County, Mississippi, United States.
John Carmichael Jenkins (1809–1855) was an American plantation owner, medical doctor and horticulturalist in the Antebellum South.
Edward Turner was a state legislator and public official who served as Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi from 1824 to 1832, and again from 1840 to 1843.
Homer Harris Casteel was an American politician in the state of Mississippi who served in the Mississippi Senate and as Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1920-1924.
Clarence Budney Greaves was an American lawyer and Democratic member of the Mississippi state legislature in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He represented the Mississippi's 18th senatorial district in the Mississippi Senate from 1896 to 1900 and from 1912 to 1920, and represented Madison County in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1904 to 1908.
Stephen Arne Douglas Greaves, Jr. was a planter and a Democratic member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, representing Hinds County, from 1908 to 1912.
Old Greenville is a ghost town in Jefferson County, Mississippi, United States. The town was located along the old Natchez Trace and was once the largest town along the Trace. Nothing exists at the site today except the town's cemetery.
Emmet Nicholson Thomas was an American politician. He was the speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1904 to 1908.
Charles B. Mitchell was an American politician. He served in both houses of the Mississippi Legislature and was the Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1888 to 1890.
Eron Rowland (1861/2-1951), born Eron Opha Moore and also known as Eron Moore Gregory, was a historian, author and the wife of Andrew E. Gregory until his death in 1900. She later married Dunbar Rowland. With Rowland, she helped develop the Mississippi Department of Archives and History which holds many of the family's papers.
John Prentiss Carter was an American politician. He served in both houses of the Mississippi Legislature and was the Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1904 to 1908.
Harry Battley Greaves was an American lawyer and Democratic politician. He represented Madison County in the Mississippi State Senate from 1902 to 1908 and in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1894 to 1896.
