Perry County, Mississippi Genealogy and History
Gene Phillips, County Coordinator
Jeff Kemp - State Coordinator
Position Vacant - Assistant State Coordinator
COLORED POPULATION OF PERRY COUNTY, 1936
This is taken from the W. P. A. County History for Perry County, Mississippi. The section on population was prepared by Lessie Maxwell and is dated June 10, 1936. According to the report there were 2,748 colored in Perry County at that time but she did not specify whether she meant colored persons or families. There were many colored preachers, one colored merchant, and one colored private shop owner. Canvassers who gathered the information were Pearl Odom, Jessie Walker, Lessie Maxwell and Mamie McDonald.
FARM OWNERS
- Sam Beal
- Farmer Williams
- Callab Colbert
- Malissie Bolton
- Carrie Bolton
- Tucker Bolton
- Professor Thomas
- Oliver Bolton
- Mac Bolton
- Little John Bolton
- Dock Bolton
- John Blake Bolton
- Phil Gowdy
- Pete Kennedy
- Angus Bolton
- Charlie Bolton
- Charlie Red Bolton
- Harris Tanner
- Collins Bolton
- Evin Lawrence
- George Lawrence
- James Bolton
- Henry McQueen
- Joe Lee
- Charlie Odom
- Cola Tart
- Ellen Travis
- Joe McGilvery
- Thad McGilvery
- Clem Gray
- Walter Taylor
- J. W. Wyatt
- Nathan McSwain
- Johnnie Hinton
- Zeo McSwain
- Turner Dykes
- John Lynch
- Manual Jefferson
- William Walley
- Bud Carter
- Henry Davis
- Jim West
- Annette Breland
- Sarah Jones
- Eugene Breland
- Mary Bell Dickie
- Ida Dickie
- W. H. Andrews
- Nollie Griffin
- Mack Breland
- Paul Breland
- Joseph McDowell
- Willis Knight
- Charity Lock
- Neal Young
- Mike Jones
- John McLendon
- Elia Hinton
- Mary McSwain Hinton
- Steve Barnett
- W. L. Jackson
- Pete Jefferson
- Sam Ratliff
- Jessie E. Kelley
- Sarah Davis
- Willie Carter
- Lawyer Booth
- Lewis Craft
- Shorty Bennett
- Cap Breland
- Tommie Jackson
- John Lee Isom and Thelma Andrews
- Benjamin Hatten
- Peter McDowell
- Kate Smith
- Humphrey Knight
- Carey Benjamin
- W. C. B. Fairley
- Addison Fairley
- Mattie Hall
- Jimmie Fairley
- Luther Alfred
- Homer Breland
- Plummer Ramsey
- Pink Bagent
- London Fairley
- Lina Cleveland
- Cleveland Dickie
- Peter Fairley
- Austin Avery
- Ca?? Breland
- Mitchell Denham
FARM RENTERS
- Willard Lee
- B. Porter
- West Fairley
- Earl Weatherford
- Melvin Breland
- Saul Jones
- Ed Fairley
- Cleveland Perry
- Dave Harper
- Will Ashford
- Johnnie Blank
- Isaac Spinks
- Walter Gandy
- McKinley Hinton
- John Grigsoy
- Horace Hinton
- Xiley Hinton
- Ernest Ramsey
- Watson Fairley
- Booker Spencer
- Nora Fairley
- H. Y. Logan
- Pop Hogan
- Jock Hartfield
- Henry Boose
- Will Blank
- Ollie Spinks
- Jesse Spinks
- Lawrence Hinton
- Henry Malone
- Nathan McDonald
- Aron Hinton
- Will Brown
- Mattie Brown
- Leonard DeLoach
- Tyson Bilbo
- Bunion Roberson
- John Hinton
- Anthony DeLoach
- Lawrence McSwain
- Tom McGriff
- Johnnie Strong
- Charlie Turner
- Gus Williams
- A. D. McSwain
- Ira Ellis Hinton
SHARE CROPPERS
- Ella Carter
- Zollie Henry
- Robert Bradley
- Jim Jones
- Michel McCardle
- Willie Maize
- Edd Turner
- Tom Santee
- Nathaniel Holliman
- Curtis Holliman
- Mosrie Perkins
- Mordock Henry
- Joe Sellers
- John McSwain
- Winnie West
- Caesar West
- Scott Williams
- John Turner
- Print Kennedy
- Arie Holliman
- Phil Goudy
- Jack Garraway
- Ranson McCullum