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- 1 2 Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi: Volume II, Part II. Pelican Publishing. April 1, 1999. ISBN 9781565546097 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "History of Claiborne County". www.msgw.org.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Farm Chemicals Handbook". Meister Publishing Company. July 2, 1909 – via Google Books.
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