Famous natives...
some decidedly un-famous Phildelphia natives...
My father, his brother, his mother.. her mother...
My granddaddy operated Phildelphia's first radio station. Greatgranddaddy Grubbs sold Insurance there.
Bobby Gordon and wife Melissa and daughter Pat were my related cousins.
Bobby Gordon's mom and my paternal grandma were sisters and came from Decauter-Stratton.
Bobby died of cancer from ciggies early on and had worked for the phone company. Melissa is an invalid at her daughter Pat's home in Jackson area where Pat is a nurse and a very fine caregiver.
I remember going to the fair there and the horse race....around the same time as the killings or shortly thereafter.
Aren't there some Molphus folks from there who were political later...I recall a girl from Ole Miss much later and a ski trip. I think she married a Delta boy...Dorothy was her name. Handsome gal.
Most but not all of my kin came from somewhat South of Neshoba...mostly Scott, Simpson, Smith, Newton, Wayne....Piney Woods folk.