page_title: Issaquena County, Mississippi
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Issaquena County, Mississippi / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: Muddy Waters at Ontario Place, Toronto, June 1978 (with James Cotton)
context_page_description: Issaquena County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,406, making it the least populous county in the United States east of the Mississippi River. Its county seat is Mayersville. With a per-capita income of $18,598, Issaquena County is the poorest county in the United States.
  Issaquena County is located in the Mississippi Delta region. The Mississippi River flows along the entire western boundary of the county, and many of the earliest communities were river ports.
  The county's economy is chiefly based on agriculture, though a number of hunting camps are also located here and contribute to the economy. Mississippi's two most recent records for the heaviest alligator taken by a hunter have both been in Issaquena County, the latest in 2012 when a 697.5 lb alligator was killed at a camp near Fitler.
context_section_description: Unita Blackwell, civil rights leader and mayor of Mayersville from 1976-2001; first female African-American mayor in Mississippi.
  Charles C. Diggs, Sr., first African-American Democrat elected to the Michigan Senate; born in Tallula.
  William Stamps Farish II, president of Standard Oil; born in Mayersville.
  Muddy Waters, blues musician (1913–1983); born in "Jug's Corner".
  Eliza Winston, notable slave.
caption: Muddy Waters
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