Settlers of Mound Bayou

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Mound Bayou, Bolivar, Mississippi, United States

The following people are listed below as the original settlers of Mound Bayou, Mississippi. Original settlers are those who both founded the town and helped incorporate it, as well as, those who moved to, lived and died through 3 generations, or through 1920. However, some of those listed below might be disputed as being settlers since they are not on "official settlers lists."

1. Benjamin Thornton Montgomery inspirational founder 1867
2. Isaiah T. Montgomery son, founder & first mayor (1887) & postmaster('88, '92)
3. Joshua P. T. Montgomery son, founder & postmaster (March '94)
4. William T. Montgomery son, founder
5. Mary V. Montgomery, daughter, postmaster (May '95)
6. Mary Montgomery Booze, Isaiah's daughter, founder of the Mound Bayou Normal Institute
7. Benjamin T. Green, founder and postmaster (Feb '94)
8. Thompson Black
9. Professor Theodore H Black
10. * Married Mrs. Florence Jones in 1907 and had children
11. Andrew T Broadwater, shoemaker and agent for Yazoo & Mississippi Valley railroad
12. * Married Miss Ruby E. Shirley
13. Livingston Brooks, retail merchant, son of James F. Brooks
14. * Married Ethel Filor in 1911
15. Willis T. Brown, restaurant owner, real estate broker, member of firm Banks and Francis
16. * Married Emma K. (Crossley) Brown
17. * Daughter Pearl Brown (abt.1902-)
18. John H. Bryant owner of Bryant's Shaving Parlor
19. *Married Gertrude A. (Jones) Bryant principal of the Mound Bayou public school.
20. George W. Burt photographer; proprietor of his own studio
21. Rev. John Allen Bynoe (1866-1913), preacher
22. Thomas M. Campbell, District agent with the US Dept. of Ag
23. John W. Cobbs, 2nd mayor and chief magistrate until his death 1906.
24. Doc Collins (1862-abt.1937), Stave maker superintendent
25. Thomas Warren Cook and
26. *Brother Walter H. Cook, Mechanical engineers for the Mound Bayou Oil Mill and Manufacturing Company.
27. Warren Fisher
28. * Married Mary Elizabeth Fisher, original settlers ('96)
29. * Children:Minnie Lucinda Fisher (1896-1990), city librarian,
30. * Mary L. Fisher (adopted daughter)
31. * Mexico Fisher
32. Simon Gaiter (1845-1921) and family.
33. Peter Harris (needs more research)
34. Aurelius Parker Hood (1872-1913) author of "The Negro at Mound Bayou."
35. Rev. Dr. John Jones, presiding elder of the Greenwood District of the A. M. E. Church.
36. * Married Vamper Dell Mashon
37. * Daughters: Faustina Virginia Jones an accomplished pianist; and
38. * Alma B Jones
39. Theodore C. Jordan (1855-abt.1924) and
40. * Married Alice (Unknown) Jordan (1853-)
41. George A Lee, lawyer and the first county Justice of the Peace for the Mound Bayou District
42. * Married Mrs. Mollie A (Harland) Wilson
43. * Children: Dr. Scottie Pearl Lee, graduate of Meharry’s Pharmaceutical College and member of the Nation Medical Association; and
44. * Dewey A Lee
45. Dr. Clyde Wilson Lee Sr. (1884-), Medical doctor and printer.
46. William Lewis Jr. (abt.1833-1906), builder, mechanic, Alderman
47. * Married Lucinda A. (McCaled) Lewis (1839-1907) Original settlers ('96)
48. Richard M McCarty (abt.1857-bef.1930)
49. Ada Jane (Penn) Simmons (abt.1861-1930), President of the Society of Renovators, and creator of Mound Bayou's "Founders' Day"
50. Augustus Simmons (abt.1854-1940), early settler of Mound Bayou
51. Columbus R. Stringer, merchant and Alderman and
52. * Wife Lula Shaw
53. * Children: Richard Stringer,
54. *Cecil Eugene Stringer
55. *Young Marion Stringer, Insurance agent
56. **Children of Young Marion Stringer:
57. Charles Columbus Stringer (abt.1917-1990)
58. Emmet James Stringer (1919-1995)
59. Portia Stringer (abt.1922-2001)
60. Perry Strong (abt.1836-) and
61. *Wife: Eliza (Anderson) Strong (abt.1857-)
62. *Children: Isabella Louise (Strong) Marr (1877-1952)

Profiles to make:

1. Alfred Johnson
2. Lee Harris moved on to Mound Bayou and became a successful farmer.^[1]
3. Luke Thomas and brother Matthew Thomas, brothers opened the Thomas Bros. Drug Store in Mound Bayou^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Dakin File (a family file kept at the public library in Cleveland MS)
2. ↑ A.P. Hood's The Negro at Mound Bayou, published in 1909. p. 61

• Mound Bayou Settlers (Google Doc)