(Written for The Meteor December 7, 2018) Attendance was brisk at Cherry Grove this past Sunday for this year’s live nativity hosted by the United Methodist Church Apex Youth. Attendees boarded a hayride and were driven through the field across from the historic home to a series of stops. Appropriately costumed, youth members told the […]
(Written for The Meteor November 26, 2018) Women have had the right to vote for close to 100 years. Passed by Congress June 14, 1919, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution which gave all women the right to vote was ratified August 18, 1920. It would be March 22, 1984 before Mississippi ratified the amendment, […]
(Written for The Meteor November 19, 2018) The year was 1939 and the Depression had taken its toll. That year, there were five Thursdays in November. President F. D. Roosevelt was concerned that if Thanksgiving was celebrated on the last Thursday of the month, November 30, as it had been for the past 75 years, […]
(Written for The Meteor November 5, 2018) Luther Harper was a veteran of World War I. He was born in 1893 and grew up in the Brushy Creek community in Copiah County. He enlisted in the United States Army in 1918 and was honorably discharged in 1919. This circa 1915 photograph depicts Harper in his […]
(Written for The Meteor November 5, 2018) On November 11, 1918, at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month, firing on the First World War’s Western Front ended. After four years, there was stillness on the battlefields of Europe, but the loss was devastating. More than 4 million families in the […]
(Written for The Meteor October 22, 2018) November 6, 1883 was not a typical election day. On that morning, Prentiss “Print” Matthews, a Republican, was killed by Democrat E. B. Wheeler. Matthews was on his way to vote in a board of supervisors election when he was shot and killed in Hazlehurst. It was a […]
(Written for The Meteor September 3, 2018) It was Christmas day, December 25, 1928, when Maj. Alton N. Parker, a native of Crystal Springs, became the first person to set foot on Antarctica. Parker had been on several expeditions with fellow explorer Richard Byrd. In May 1926, Byrd and fellow pilot Floyd Bennett were the […]
(Written for The Meteor August 27, 2018) Throughout its history, the county has had strong ties to education, especially the state’s institutions of higher learning. For example, Major Reuben Millsaps provided the initial donation for Millsaps College, and Annie Coleman Peyton veraciously lobbied for the creation of a female college, now Mississippi University for Women […]
(Written for The Meteor August 27, 2018) The Mississippi Homemaker Volunteers State Council is celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2018. Founded in 1918, Copiah County was the first to join the state organization. Organized by the Mississippi State University (MSU) Extension Services, county councils are comprised of officers from several local homemaker clubs. The Homemaker […]
(Written for The Meteor August 20, 2018) In October, 1970 the Cherokee Rose Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution placed a historic plaque on the gravestone of John Henry Strong, one of four revolutionary soldiers buried in Copiah County. The ceremony took place at what was then known as Pleasant Hill Cemetery, two […]
