The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-06-09
: OR THE CLARION
Jefferson and Claiborne Counties.

While we had rt,ny great men about
Greenvi!le, we lsd some boys who in
lime have proved tEemselves great and
noble. jefferson Davis in his childhood
was one Of the boys of Greenville in
1873. lie played in the streets as other
boys did. This was the fashion then.
u after years we see him sent to school
then graduate, then in tue army with
his father.in-law; Gen. Taylor, afterward
President Of the United States); then
Colonel Of the First Mississippi Reg
imeut in the war with Mexico in lS47
md 1913 then in the lower house of
Congress; then candidate for Governor
Of Mississippi, but defeated by Gov. Ii.
S. FOofe; then to the Senate of the
United States then in 1861 resigned and
was elected 10 the Presidency of the
Confederate States, which position he
held until the surrender of the army in
1868, when he was captured and kept in
prison for months, but through the instru-
mentality of friends was released. He has
never been pardoned, nor given the right
Of suffrage. Years ago he retired from
the scenes of the busy world TO bis beau
beautiful sea-COast home at BeauVoir, where
in his old age he can quietly contemplate
the future of life ] notice that tAe old
man, now in the 10Th year of his age, has
been recently the recipient Of grand
ovation by the citizens of Montgomery,
Ala, and the city Of Savannah, Ga, and
now is back to his beautiful seacoast
home. All honor to jefferson Davis, the
great soldier and the noble statesman.
Pickering county, as il was first called /,
had many great and noble men in it
when first organized during the time of
the territorial government, but in 1901
the county was divided into two coun-
ties; the north part was called Claiborne,
and the South Jefferson. GibsOnpOrt, on
the south branch of Bayou Pierre, was
the county site Of Claiborne county.
Greenvlle was the county site of Jefier-
son county. Many of the men who
figured in our (PickeringN county after
wards some were citizens of Claiborne
and some of Jefferson county. | might
mention some of those whose homes
were found to be in Claiborne county,
to-wit: Sam. Gibson, the founder of
Port Gibson, G.. w. Humphries. Daniel
Burnett, VIM. Nicely, Peter B. Bruin,
Parmenas Brisco, w. r. Chambliss, VIM.
Taylor, Thomas Barnes, Col. r. Ragan,
Jas. Watson and ,others. Some of those
men belonged to the military, some to
the civil, and some to the Judiciary
Those men have all gone. but many of
their descendants have proved firm and
shining lights in the councils of the
State and nation, as legislators, as mill
tarv commanders, as part of the Judi
ciary Here are lawyers, doctors and
preachers, descendants of those old set
l., g G
their ancestors.
Jefferson county had Thomas Kinds,
Cato West, L. Nj. Green, Parker Cara
dine, Felix Hughes, John Bolls, John
Dennis, Isaac Pipes, Abner Pipes, Louis
Cable John Orr, John and Jacob Stamp
lev Daniel Beasley, 5. J. Cabble, Coles
Mead, James Stuart, sam and John
Calyit, l.. G. Harris, Willis Mcdonald,
Randall Gibson, Robert and Michael
Tnmble, David and Abijah Hunt, John
Twilv, William Erwin, Hiram Bald
win, William Hamberlain, J III. Shanks
f. c. Waugh, John Hopkins and others
Most of those men held some station in
the military or civil government, and
now we see their descendants to the
fourth or fifth generation filling impor.
tant stations; many of them are lawyers
doctors or preachers, many of them have
been in our State Legislatures and some
in Congress The mothers and wise;
aud sisters aud daughters of those mer
have left noble examples for their des
cendants, and well they profited by it
for there is not in the State more
high-toned people than the descendants
of the people who first settled the coun
~ of Pickering, now Claiborne anc
Jefferson. In my next will try and give
some further notice of those names
which ! have mentioned and will com
mence at 1912 and giye the names anC
dates of most Of our civil officers up tC
1885, giving nativity, what position
held, for v hat term of years, whethe
dead or alive. A. II. WATKINS.
Nav 10th. 1856