HISTORY OF SESSUMS COMMUNITY THROUGH 1976 MRS ...

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Linderman
Lee L. Linderman married Grace Winston. Their children were Mary, Levitt, Ike,
Claudine, and Marjorie. The Lindermans lived on the Joyner place near where the
Pyrons live now. Later, the Linderman family moved to Starkville. Mr. Linderman was
a rural mail carrier. After his death, Mrs. Linderman moved to Shreveport,
Louisiana, where her married children lived.
McGinnis
The Freeman McGinnis family moved to Sessums in 1959 to the place formerly owned by
George Henderson. Freeman McGinnis is the son of Dumas and Lula Prisock McGinnis.
His wife, Wynelle, is the daughter of Paul and Edna Pugh Jackson. The McGinnises
have one child, Shirley. Freeman is a barber in Starkville and Wynelle works at the
office of the County Superintendent of Education.
Massey
Joe and Ruby Massey moved to the former Peters farm from Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
They lived in the house built by Mr. Peters until it burned in December 1974. Joe
is the present owner of this farm.
Mr. Massey and his second wife, a native of Mexico, once operated a business in
Artesia, which is now operated by his daughter and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Bob
Reese, Jr.
The Massey children are Joe, Jr.; Randy; Steve and Sandy.
Mitchener
John Mitchener and his wife, Lucia Leon Parker (daughter of a physician), lived in
Houston, Mississippi. They had two sons, E. A. Q. and Jessie. When Jessie was eight
years old and his brother four, their father died. They went then to live with a
friend, and the mother later died. The boys then stayed with a Mr. Ball at Una in
Clay County. These boys later came to Starkville and lived with their cousin, Mrs.
Hamp Ellis. They went back to Una when they were grown and worked on a farm. Jessie
married Odell Whitt and had two children--Clifford and Carolyn, Mrs. Earl Lee of
Mobile. Jessie died in 1968.
E. A. Q. married a sister of Mrs. Jessie Mitchener, Ula Mae Whitt. This couple had
one child, Donald, who died of diabetes in 1974. E. A. Q. died in 1970.