Settlers of Mound Bayou

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Mound Bayou, Bolivar, Mississippi, United States

The following people are listed below as the original settlers of Mound Bayou, Mississippi. Original settlers are those who both founded the town and helped incorporate it, as well as, those who moved to, lived and died through 3 generations, or through 1920. However, some of those listed below might be disputed as being settlers since they are not on "official settlers lists."

1. Benjamin Thornton Montgomery inspirational founder 1867
2. Isaiah T. Montgomery son, founder & first mayor (1887) & postmaster('88, '92)
3. Joshua P. T. Montgomery son, founder & postmaster (March '94)
4. William T. Montgomery son, founder
5. Mary V. Montgomery, daughter, postmaster (May '95)
6. Mary Montgomery Booze, Isaiah's daughter, founder of the Mound Bayou Normal Institute
7. Benjamin T. Green, founder and postmaster (Feb '94)

1. Lawrence Aldridge (abt.1837-)
2. Thompson Black
3. Professor Theodore H Black
4. * Married Mrs. Florence Jones in 1907
5. Andrew T Broadwater, shoemaker and agent for Yazoo & Mississippi Valley railroad
6. * Married Miss Ruby E. Shirley
7. Livingston Brooks, retail merchant, son of James F. Brooks
8. * Married Ethel (Filer) Brooks (1887-) in 1911
9. Willis T. Brown, restaurant owner, real estate broker, member of firm Banks and Francis
10. * Married Emma K. (Crossley) Brown
11. * Daughter Pearl Brown (abt.1902-)
12. John H. Bryant owner of Bryant's Shaving Parlor
13. *Married Gertrude A. (Jones) Bryant principal of the Mound Bayou public school.
14. George W. Burt photographer; proprietor of his own studio
15. Rev. John Allen Bynoe (1866-1913), preacher
16. Thomas M. Campbell, District agent with the US Dept. of Ag
17. John W. Cobbs, 2nd mayor and chief magistrate until his death 1906.
18. Doc Collins (1862-abt.1937), Stave maker superintendent
19. Thomas Warren Cook and
20. *Brother Walter H. Cook, Mechanical engineers for the Mound Bayou Oil Mill and Manufacturing Company.
21. Warren Fisher
22. * Married Mary Elizabeth Fisher, original settlers ('96)
23. * Children:Minnie Lucinda Fisher (1896-1990), city librarian,
24. * Mary L. Fisher (adopted daughter)
25. * Mexico Fisher
26. Simon Gaiter (1845-1921) and family.
27. Peter Harris (needs more research)
28. Aurelius Parker Hood (1872-1913) author of "The Negro at Mound Bayou."
29. Rev. Dr. John Jones, presiding elder of the Greenwood District of the A. M. E. Church.
30. * Married Vamper Dell Mashon
31. * Daughters: Faustina Virginia Jones an accomplished pianist; and
32. * Alma B Jones
33. Theodore C. Jordan (1855-abt.1924) and
34. * Married Alice (Unknown) Jordan (1853-)
35. George A Lee, lawyer and the first county Justice of the Peace for the Mound Bayou District
36. * Married Mrs. Mollie A (Harland) Wilson
37. * Children: Dr. Scottie Pearl Lee, graduate of Meharry’s Pharmaceutical College and member of the Nation Medical Association; and
38. * Dewey A Lee
39. Dr. Clyde Wilson Lee Sr. (1884-), Medical doctor and printer.
40. William Lewis Jr. (abt.1833-1906), builder, mechanic, Alderman
41. * Married Lucinda A. (McCaled) Lewis (1839-1907) Original settlers ('96)
42. Richard M McCarty (abt.1857-bef.1930)
43. Ada Jane (Penn) Simmons (abt.1861-1930), President of the Society of Renovators, and creator of Mound Bayou's "Founders' Day"
44. Augustus Simmons (abt.1854-1940), early settler of Mound Bayou
45. Columbus R. Stringer, merchant and Alderman and
46. * Wife Lula Shaw
47. * Children: Richard Stringer,
48. *Cecil Eugene Stringer
49. *Young Marion Stringer, Insurance agent
50. **Children of Young Marion Stringer:
51. Charles Columbus Stringer (abt.1917-1990)
52. Emmet James Stringer (1919-1995)
53. Portia Stringer (abt.1922-2001)
54. Perry Strong (abt.1836-) and
55. *Wife: Eliza (Anderson) Strong (abt.1857-)
56. *Children: Isabella Louise (Strong) Marr (1877-1952)
57. Luck Cole (1856-1913)
58. William Henry Granger (1824-)
59. Virginia (Montgomery) Granger (1850-1917)
60. Dudley Harvey (1857-1948)
61. Charles Franklin Bolton Sr. (1857-1936)
62. Mack Kitchen (1843-abt.1915)
63. Michael Winston (1850-1928)
64. William Lawson Grady (1861-1918)

Profiles to make:

1. Alfred Johnson
2. Lee Harris moved on to Mound Bayou and became a successful farmer.^[1]
3. Luke Thomas and brother Matthew Thomas, brothers opened the Thomas Bros. Drug Store in Mound Bayou^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Dakin File (a family file kept at the public library in Cleveland MS)
2. ↑ A.P. Hood's The Negro at Mound Bayou, published in 1909. p. 61

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