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Note: My Grandmother use to tell me about when she and her parents moved to
Forrest Co. Ms.
Apparently they were with a group of people, which decided to settle
there. Hattie Hardy, was tired, so she sat down on a stump to rest, and
they all decided that they would call their new town Hattiesburg,
(Mississippi) after Hattie. The stump that she sat on was in the vicenity
of where Hardy Street is located now, so they decided to call the street Hardy Street after it was made. These were the Pioneer Families of
Hattiesburg, the only family names that I can remember were My Great
Grandparents, James Everett and Florence Olivia (Brannan) Sexton, My
Grandmother Winona Sexton, The Tatum family and the Hardy's. I,m sure
there were others since a town was established. My GGrandfather J. E.
Sexton owned a sawmill
in Forrest Co. on what is now called Old Richburg Rd. and Mr. Tatum
established a sawmill in Lamar Co. The Sextons lived in Hattiesburg, and
later moved to Lamar Co. near Oak Grove Community.
Grandpa Sexton later lost his sawmill during the depression. My
Grandmother told me that he went to the bank one day to deposit his money
to meet his payroll, and was told that his money wasn't good any longer.
So he took his money back home with him, and I was told that my
Granmother still had possession of that useless money locked in her
trunk. I remember the trunk, she kept it locked and I would ask her to
let me see inside it, but she would never unlock it to let me look, those
were her memories I was told. Grandpa Sexton went in to farming after
that.
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