Question: Hugh McLaurin Pepper, is a former All-American football player, professional baseball player and high school football coach, he has been twice honored by the Mississippi State Legislature—once for his playing career at USM and once for his achievements as a high school football coach in Ocean Springs, a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, approximately 2 mi east of Biloxi and west of Gautier, in which country?
Sentence (from "Ocean Springs, Mississippi"): The population was 17,225 at the 2000 U.S. Census.
Relevant evidence: No