![]() "Old Mack" on the sunny days when riding beside me in my buggy has stated that up on the mountain "the Marster could jess look out and see every plow at work". A spring about 200 feet from its porch furnished water and Manuel, a slave boy, attended to all necessary services of house and horse, and fuel and thus made the two annual visits at planting and harvest times ideal outings for a Polk man of great toil with the burden of Government. Polk became sole owner and operator.Ī log cabin with a rask chimney was built on top of the cone-shaped mountain. Polk, owned and operated as partners until 1838 when J. Caldwell, Polk's brother-in-law, William H. Caldwell (who married Polk's sister) to Polk announcing the purchase of the Yella Busha Lands and comments on same.ĭr. I enclose a letter dated January 2nd, 1835 from Dr. He knew it was under fire and wished to prepare himself to defend the position he might take. I have been informed years ago by some of the old men in this section that Polk was accustomed in coming to Mississippi with a desire to have intimate experience and knowledge of the merit or demerit of the system of slavery on a large scale. Polk and his brothers and brother-in-laws were owners of slaves and lands in Tennessee on a moderate scale. In that period, the Congress was flooded with petitions for abolition of slavery and in lurid phrases setting out its offense to Civilization and Christianity. Polk of Tennessee was elected to Congress in 1825. Hale knew the contents and Hale made it his care to make the journey on this wagon. ![]() Hale told me that one wagon was loaded with silver bullion and coins covered over with household goods. Jennings of Memphis, Tenn, a pioneer of energy and thoroughly dependable, took the contract to transport Chief Perry's personal effects to the Indian Territory. In the creek below was the undershot water mill where Polk and the pioneers ground their corn the foundation logs are yet be seen when waters are low. LaCook told me that Bob Brooks was postmaster thirty years. ![]() On the Okachickima hills is yet seen burial ground and gravestones of the Perry's and also the log cabin, post office building where J. It was a half mile south of the village of Bryant and spread up and down along Okachickima Creek. The Indian Village, "Perryville," was three miles east of this Perry Mountain and was in charge of John Perry's two brothers, Charley and Harry Perry. The rich land between the two creeks was Chief Perry's personal preserve and was occupied by a few tribesmen and slaves. The hill was called by settlers, Perry Mountain, and the creek on the east was called John Perry Creek, and the creek on the west, given the name of his wife, Susan Perry Creek. John Perry, a Choctaw Chief, had his tepee (actually it was a log cabin) on a cone shaped hill between two creeks. This letter is from the files of Bruce Gurner. A paper on early Yalobusha County history, and the James K.
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