Tombigbee Tales

Ruth Ford and Charles Henri Ford grew up in the Gilmer Hotel where their father ran the Cafe. Ruth would become an accomplished actress in film and on the stage and Charles Henri would gain notoriety as a poet and novelist. 

Alexander Meek was a poet, orator, and statesman from Alabama. He married Eliza Cannon, the late wife of Col. William Cannon. Meek was a pro-Unionist who served as Alabama's Speaker of the House and at the state's secessionist convention. He is buried in Friendship Cemetery in Columbus, MS. 

Frank Miller was the great-niece of Lucy Irion Neilson of Columbus, MS. How did one woman's essay change the course of Jung's work and facilitate his complete split from Freud? 

Nancy Luke Carpenter has spent/committed every dime (and then some) in the CVB marketing budget on her way out the door with six months left to go in the fiscal year. What else has she committed money to and the bills have just not rolled in yet? 

Nancy Luke Carpenter is going to bleed the Columbus Cultural Foundation dry and ruin the Tennessee Williams Welcome Center's good name. Follow the money!

Where's Carpenter going to find the money to support her champagne life style with her lite beer budget at the Tennessee Williams Building? 

The New Anti-Tourism Director at the Tennessee Williams Welcome Center wants to close it during Spring Pilgrimage...their busiest time of year!

Porch Fest 2024 in Columbus, MS April12-13 at Munson Bros will feature bands, comedians, artists, and food trucks!!! Bring your lawn chair and come listen to great musicians from all over the Eastern US.  This is going to be epic! All flavors of music to be played. 

Plantation owner Mel Lollar went to the cabin of John Odum to kick he and his family off the Lollar's land. An argument ensued and Lollar was gut shot 8 times. 

Alexander McClung was involved in at least a dozen duels. He organized the Tombigbee Volunteers to go to the Mexican War in 1846. He is buried in Soldiers Cemetery in Vicksburg, MS but has a cenotaph in Friendship Cemetery in Columbus, MS. 

Caroline Seabury came to Columbus Female Institute from Brooklyn, NY to teach French in 1854. She would be the tutor for the children of Col. George Hampton Young at Waverley Mansion. She would stay there until after the Fall of Vicksburg before leaving North for home and an uncertain future. 

Carroll County, Mississippi Sheriff Clint Walker endangers private citizens' lives over accusations related to a missing Blues Trail Marker that is in the hands of Mississippi Blues Trail Commission designees Hammons and Associates. Walker has yet to reach out to the family or Hammons and Associates.

Interview with Cy Yuan Suo about his experience at the Mississippi John Hurt Memorial Walk in October 2023, where the marchers, students, and Mary Frances Hurt, the granddaughter of Blues musician John Hurt were heckled by racist neighbors in Carroll County, Mississippi.

The Director of the Mississippi John Hurt Foundation - Mississippi John Hurt's Granddaughter Mary Francis Hurt talks about the fire, the lack of information, suspicions of arson, and the "theft" of the Blues Trail Marker.  Ugly racist motives and white supremacists abound in the Mississippi Delta... To follow/suppport the Mississippi John Hurt Foundation on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/johnhurtfoundation

There is a tale attached to this house...that it was turned by a team of oxen from facing the river to face Bridge Street and all the new bridge traffic. Let's explore a little early Columbus history found in this almost 200 year old home.