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Taken from the Book, Mississippi History, 1891

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1846 Felix. Labauve James J. Chewing
1848 D.C. Sharpe. G.B. Wilds
1850 Walker , Brooke Ezekial McNabb
1852 Morgan McAfee ______ Gillespie
1854 A.M. West _____ Smith.
1856-'57 A.M. West H.H. Southworth
1858 A.M. West R.E. Crane
1859-'60-'61 A.M. West E.P. Jones
1861-'62 W.Q. Poindexter E.P. Jones
1865.''66,,'67 J.J. Harker James Y, McNeil
1970,'71 Wm Gray D.N. Quinn
1872-'73 Wm Price D.N. Quinn
1874,'75 Wm Price J.W. Randolph
1876-'77 W.H. Fitzgerald Wm. H Mallory
1878 W.H. Fitzgerald James W. Heathman
1880 W.H. Fitzgerald T.H. Torrey
1882 W.H. Fitzgerald Jesse Boyer
1884 G.W. Gayles C.S. McKenzie
1886 G.W. Gayles John James
1888 John W. Cutrer Marshall Brown
1890 John W. Cutrer Thos. R. Baird

TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY
Was established December 23, 1833. In 1832 Col. James Bailey, (the Father of Judge J.S. Bailey, a Most estimable gentleman and Lawyer of high standings, who has reached three score years and ten, and how resident of the county), Captain Samuel Caruthers and Captain Chas. Bowen, then residence of Hickman County,Tennessee , came on horseback and explored nearly all of the last purchase from the Choctaw Indians,by the treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, and selected the county that impressed them most favorably. They located homes on Tillatoba Creek,in what afterwards became Tallahatchie County. These three gentlemen were substantual farmers, and possessed not only money, but a quite a number of negro slaves, and were throughly equiped to open plantations.At the time mentioned Samuel Foster was living in the valley, having been previousely married to an Indian woman, was entitled by the terms of the treaty to some eighteen hundred acres of land, which he selected in the valley, at the base of the hills nine miles below Charleston.

At the time or just after the treaty mentioned, the indians were incensed against Chief Greenwood Leflore, and Samule Foster was one of the guards for the protection of Col. Leflore when he went to meet Genearl Jacksons Commissioner of Indian Affairs. About this time the two little towns of Chocchuma and Tuscahoma sprung up, both located on the south bank of the Yalobusha River.

The Land Office of the government was located at Chocchuma, which was situated where Parsons depot, on the Yazoo branch of the Illinois Central Railroad, is not located.

Col. James Bailey, Captain Samuel Caruthers and Captain Charles Bowen motheir families from Tennessee in 1832, and early in 1833, and in the latter years made most excellent crops.

Having made their settlement prior to the orginization of county they secured their plantations by pre-emptions and purchases.

The imigration in 1833 and 1834 was very considerable from the States of Tennessee, Kentuckey, Virginia and Alabama and the Carolinias, and formed a most excellent population. Among them were two Nephews of John C. Calhoun (the great South Carolina Statesman,) Thomas and Lawrence Calhoun. there was also,that date a brother of the distinguished Statesman of North Carolina, Wiley P. Mangrum, who with his family, kinsmen, and friends soon opened a fine plantation and had comfortable homes.

During the same year Majow James W. Harper, a large planter and an educated and talanted gentleman, came from Georgia and opened a most valuable Plantation upon which he now resides at the advanced age of eighty five Years. James Marsh a Planter and a Lawyer, was among the early settlers of the county. James a Girault and George R. Girault came to this county at an early day from Natchez,and opened large plantations and were prominent citizens . They were subsquently appointed respectively receiver and register of the Land office at Grenada,

Morgan, Jesse ,Madison and John McAgee, were among the early settlers of the county; They camd from Mississippi and frequently represented the county in Legislature. Madison McAfee served the State as Auditor of Public Accounts. They wer all gentlemen of large means and of fine intelligence. All brothers are de ad. William Y. Blacker was among the first settlers of the county. Samuel Marsh, Sr. the venerable father of Samuel and James Marsh, a distinguished Baptist Minister, opened a plantation near Col. James Bailey, and preached to his neighbors many years.

Captain Chas Bowen was the first Represenative in Legislature from this county. The late Judge James M. Howry and H.A. Barr, Esq., of Oxford , married daughters of Captain Bowen.

The population of Tallahatchie County in an earlier day was composed of superior intelligence and culture. Charleston, The county Site, is a flourishing little town situated in the forks of Tillatoba; other towns in the county are Sharkey, Harrison Station and Graball.

Streams in the county are the Tillatoba and Yazoo rivers, and Hobson's and Opossum bayos.

Tallahatchie County has 60, 775 acres of cleared land; average value per acre W$12.76; total value including incorporated towns, is $775,757.

The population of the county as shown by census report of 1890: White 4, 974; Colored 9,387; total 14, 361.

Senators * * Represenatives, *
1835 * * Chas Brown
1836 * * Morgan McAfee
1837 Wm. M. Brown Richard Coleman
1838 Wm. M. Brown * *
1839 Wm. M. Brown Edward Jenkins
1840-'41 Greenwood Leflorw Edward Jenkins
1842-'43 Greenwood Leflorw Morgan McAfee
1844-'46 John W. Lampkin James S Dailey
1848 J.L. Alcorn James S Baileu
1850 J.L. Alcorn J.L. Calhoun
1852 J.L. Alcorn Jos Slack
1854 J.L. Alcorn F.H. Buckley
1856-'57 I.N. Davis S. Parks
1858 I.N. Davis J.E. Tellaferro
1859-'60-'61 J.E. Talliaferro A.G. Murphy
1861-'62 J.E. Talliaferro W.S. Eskridge
1865-'66-'67 H. Mosley T.J.N. Bridges
1870-'71 James H. Pierce J.S.N. Coggshall
1872-'73-'74 Wm. M. Price Wm B. Avery
1874-'75 Wm. Price Wm B. Avery
1876-'77-'79-'80 W.H. Fitzgerald James S Bailey
1882 W.H. Fitzgerald John H. McAfee
1884 John J. Gage H.H. Bridges
1886 John J. Gage W.S. Eskridge
1888 J.N. MCLeod John S. Bailey
1890 J.N. MCLeod E.D. Rowd

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