Editing Chunky, Mississippi (section)

==History==
The town has roots as a Choctaw village named Chanki Chitto, which was named after the Choctaw game Tchungkee, a [[Indigenous North American stickball|stickball game]] played with spears and polished stones. In 1811, the native American leader Tecumseh visited the village as he was building a confederacy of native American tribes.<ref name="Natchez Belle">{{cite web |last1=Brown |first1=A.J. |title=Antiquities of Newton County |url=http://natchezbelle.org/ahgp-ms/newton/antiquities1.htm |access-date=October 3, 2019}}</ref> In 1848, the town of Chunkyville was established on the location. In 1861, upon news that a railway was to be built in the vicinity, Chunkyville was moved to its present location<ref name="ncghs" /> and was incorporated that year.<ref name=mml>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mmlonline.com/members/municipalities/Chunky/|title = Mississippi Municipal League :: Home}}</ref>

In 1863 a train carrying injured confederate veterans on the Southern Railroad crashed in Chunky.<ref name="right of way">{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36668460/the_rightofway_cemetery/ |title=The Right-Of-Way Cemetery |date=August 19, 1987 |newspaper=The Clarke County Tribune |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=October 3, 2019}}</ref> In 1864, a force commanded by William T. Sherman attacked two brigades of Confederate troops commanded by Stephen D. Lee and captured the Chunky railway station.<ref name="ncghs">{{cite web |last1=Lange |first1=Terry T. |title=The History of Chunky, Mississippi |url=http://www.nchgs.org/html/choctaw_towns.html |website=Newton County Genealogical and Historical Society |publisher=Newton County Genealogical and Historical Society |access-date=October 3, 2019}}</ref>

On June 16, 1911, a black man, William Bradford was lynched in Chunky. He was hanged by a mob after being accused of attempting to murder two white farmers.<ref name="abh">{{cite web |title=A Memorial to the Victims of Lynching |url=https://abhmuseum.org/category/lynching-victims-memorial/page/91/ |publisher=America's Black Holocaust |access-date=October 3, 2019}}</ref><ref name="Tennessean">{{cite news |title=Mississippi Negro Hanged |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36672056/william_bradford_lynched_june_16_1911/ |access-date=October 3, 2019 |newspaper=The Tennessean |date=June 18, 1911}}</ref>