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Walthall
County
WALTHALL COUNTY
Chapter XLVIII, pages 844-844
Walthall, which is one of the southern
counties adjoining the Louisiana border, was organized from parts of Pike
and Marion counties on March 16, 1914, and is one of the most recent acces¬ions
to the State. It was named in honor of Edward C. Walthall, the great Confederate
general and United States senator. Starting off with such high prestige
and filled with an industrious and aspiring population of permanent growth,
the new county has a bright future. The loyalty of the State to its heroes
is clearly recognized in the naming of her counties.
[Senator Edward Cary Walthall,
1831-1898]
The seat of Walthall County is Tylertown,
a town of 1,100 people which is situated near the center of the new county
and has railroad connections from all directions and to all points over
the Fernwood, Columbia & Gulf line and with the New Orleans, Mobile
& Chicago system. The northern part of the county is not well accommodated
with railroads, but as Walthall is in the list of counties which is pushing
the good roads movement, that deficiency will be partially remedied.
The census of 1920 places the population
of Walthall County at 18,455. Its farm property is valued at $5,670,000,
and its crops at $2,900,000, of which the cereals formed about one-quarter
in 1919. The value of its live stock in that year was given at $1,134,000.
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Source:
Mississippi The Heart of the South - By Dunbar Rowland, LL.D - Director
of the Mississippi State Department of Archives and History. Vol.
II Illustrated. Chicago-Jackson; The S. J. Clarke Publishing
Company, 1925. Public Domain
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