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Finally, if you would like to contribute to our endeavor, I encourage you to contact me. Lowrey & McCardle in "History of Mississippi" (1891) tell us that Greene County was named in honor of Major General Nathaniel Greene, of Revolutionary fame, and was established December 9, 1811. This county borders on the Alabama line. Among its first settlers were Laughlin McKay and John McRae, both of whom were members of the Constitutional Convention of 1817; the McDuffeys, McCaskill's, McPherson's, McLeod's, Walter Denny, McInnis, Laughlin McKay, the Breland's, Moody's, Smith's, Kittrell's, Avera's and Brewer's. The first sheriff was Alexander McLain, afterwards Judge of the probate court. James Walley was also Sheriff and Probate Judge. Walter Denny, a highly respected citizen of Moss Point, largely interested in the mill industry at that place, also, the father of W. M. Denny (member of the Constitutional Convention of 1890, from Jackson County,) who was at an early day sheriff of Greene County. Alexander Fairly, the father of a large family, among whom were Hon. John T. Fairly, who twice represented Covington County in the Legislature; and Dr. Alexander Fairly, who was in the State Senate, and was a leading physician in Covington County; Dr. Peter Fairly, a physician of high character and large experience, and last a resident of Jackson and Superintendent of the Blind Institute. Among the early settlers living in 1800 were: Preston Beard, Alexander Avera, Samuel Breland, S. V. McKay, Farqua McLeod, John McInnis, W. P. Avera, E. B. Box, J. J. McInnis, David Kittrell, Lemuel Bradford, Josiah Byrd, Asa Breland, Elbert Lewis Ezell, William Walley, H. G. Mills, Joseph Dickinson, E. W. Davis, Ebenezer M. Dunnam, James Freeman, J. M. Sewell, H. C. Cochran, William Turner, Sr., R. H. Walley, Willis Mills, James Beard, David Langford, Daniel Brewer, William Cooley, J. C. Breland, William Moody, Lewis Turner, J.S. Turner and William Neel. From the names mentioned there appears to be a large element of the Scotch-Irish, who usually made excellent citizens. The early towns in the county were Leakesville, the county site, named for Hon. Walter Leake, former Governor of the State and United States Senator from Mississippi; State Line, in the northeast corner of the county on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. The principal streams in the county are the Chickasawhay, and Leaf Rivers and Big Creek, all of which have numerous tribitaries. |
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