The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-08-19
Old Times in Grenada County
BY AARON q. DAVIS
CHAPTER XI.
EyENTs FROM ISIS mo- 1851.

EVENTS FROM 1878 TO 1851.
With the country once more in the
control of its rightful masters the
people were filled with hope for the
future. They went to work to re-
gain, as far as possible, what had been
lost by the war and to develop their
great resources. But dark days were
yet to follow. The yellow fever
scourge of 1878, was the worst in the
history of the South and no town was
more severely stricken than Grenada.
| 1t brought affiiction and sorrow to al
| most every home and it gave a check
to the material progress of the city
from which it took many years to re-
cover.
The census of 1880 gave Grenada a
population of 1887. She was then
ninth in size among Mississippi towns.
On July 4 1880, there was a great
! political rally in the interest of the
Hancock and English ticket for PreSi-
dent and Vice. President. The peo-
| pie were addressed by Gen. E. G. Wal
thall and other"
In Septembe 1880, the Walthall
| GrayS elected w. L. fowler, captain;
Sid B. Smith, first lieutenant; j. A.
Nance, second lieutenant; S. II. Gar
ner, third lieutenant; Finley Snider,
first sergeant; A. Mas, second Sar-
Igeant: r. ID. Duncan, third sergeant;
b. L. III. Wright, fourth sergeant;
Willis Parks, first corporal; E. j. Will
burn, second corporal: r. w. Jones,
Jr., third corporal; j. M. Sanders,
fourth corporal; and DR.. j. j. Gage,
surgeon.
In November, 1880, the house of Mrs.
Harris was burned and her two grand
children lost in the flames.
In 1880 the city officers were r.
Horton, mayor; Sam Ladd, marshal;
G. T. Wood, treasurer, and |. S. Par
ker, recorder.
1t was during 1880 that the board
of supervisors made an appropriation
for an iron bridge over Boeue and Yal-
obuSha rivers. Subscriptions to a
fund for building the bridge had been
made by the following corporations,
firms and individuals, whose names
will no doubt be of interest as they
show who were the actors in the bust
ness and professional life of Grenada
at that time.
G. st. L. & n. O. railroad, II. Null
lin, John Powell, w. n. Pass, Lake
Bros. Geo. W. Jones, VIM. McSwine,
l. Vile, n. S. Snider, r. DOak, Ma
than A. Mas, Burns, Doolittle & Co.,
j. E. Hughes, S. d. Parks, w. G..
Hamilton, John George, j. w. Berry,
w. p. fowler & Co., j. B. Lake, Jr.,
f. r. Austin, E. G. Walthall, S.
Lichenstein & Co., Vikings & Green
haw, G.. w. Williams, Mrs. Kate Don
kin, R. Horton, George Lake, p. W.
Peoples, J. G, Branum, Dr. A. A.
Bryant, j. c. Stokes, DR.. r. L. Jones,
J. r. Garner, Merchants Association,
Pryor & Mckee, j. T. Park, r. B.
Willis; j. r. Williams, A. w. Lake,
w. X. Gibbs, w. Fl. Meador, Jas
Cuff, T. p. Brown, E. H. Sewart. j.
NJ. Bishop, G. L. Bates, j. W. Grifis,
r. N. Hall, A. V. B. Thomas, w. c.
Mclean, A. G. Dubard & Co., l.. G.
Dubard, S. p. LaycOck, j. f. Ingram,
DR.. j. B. Gage, B. l.. Lay. A. S.
Weigert, John Moore. Frank May
hew, Gus Wolfe, Samuel Garner, DR..
d. B. McHenry, Mrs. S. w. Cowles,
DR.. S. T. Buchanan, A. H. Whitfield,
and several New Orleans merchants.
About the beginning of 1880, the
negroes of Mississippi had the Kan
Sas fever" and were immigrating to
that state in large numbers, and
planters were very much disturbed on
account of the threatened scarcity Of
labor.
DR.. j. j. Gage was appointed Su-
perintendent Of Education for Grena-
da county in February, 1880.
Among the prominent citizens who
died il 1880, were Jerry Talbert,
lawyer; Maj. 5 u. Randall and w. Fl.
Winter.
The town was quarantined against
yellow fever in New Orleans i'm July
of this year. An old copy of the New
South, published in 1880 says:
Grenada has four white churches,
and as many colored: two schools for
the whites and some for the colored:
two banks and two printing offices
and ''some kinky headed darby, with
a pencil behind his ear, is getting up
a petition for the eleventh saloon, Ia
Grenada, besides other institutions,
GOOD had and Indifferent