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Sources:
copyright 1963 article by Ray M. Thompson, The Daily Herald; M. J. Stephens Collection, File
III,	00350; James E. Brieger, Hometown Mississippi; Bill Jenkins, editor, Pearlington: Church and Community, 1991; Nola Nance Oliver, The Gulf Coast. 1941.