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==History== Before Europeans first arrived, the Choctaw Indians inhabited the land that would later be known as the Clarke County, Mississippi. Clarke County is only a portion of what was known as Okla Hannali or Six Town District of the Choctaws. Okla Hannali or Six Towns District existed at the time of the Dancing Rabbit Treaty in 1830.<ref>{{cite journal |journal=The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal |volume=15 |title=Okla Hannali: Or the Six towns District of the Choctaws |editor-first=Stephen Denison |editor-last=Peet |first1=H. L. |last1=Halbert |publisher=Jameson & Morse |year=1893 |pages=146–149 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fxwLAAAAYAAJ |access-date=July 19, 2021 }}</ref><!-- This source has nothing by the names of Kinnaman; whole volume is online, so I found the title and author from page 146 --> David Gage, who came to the area in about 1820, was a Presbyterian minister. Traveling with him was Moses Jewel and Miss Skinner, who were both teachers. He settled at a place called Eewennans in the Choctaw Nation. David Gage, Moses Jewel, and Miss Skinner came to the territory for the purpose of educating the Indians some domestic habits.<ref name="John Hicks Evans 1902">Recollections of John Hicks Evans, Personal Manuscript, 1902, Department of Archive & History, Washington, D.C.</ref> At the beginning of 1832, settlers began to appear in what was known as the “New Purchase”. One of the first families to arrive was Jehu and Sarah Pagaus Evans, who arrived in February 1832, and settled east of Buckatunna Swamp. By the fall of 1832, the “New Purchase” began to fill up quickly with arrivals. Among the early settlers were George Evans, Richard Wagster, Henry Hailes, Alex Hailes, Michael McCarty, James Bankston, Calvin M. Ludlow, John Williford, William Williford, James Risher, J. A. Fontain, John Gunn, Robert Fleming, John Fleming, Hiram Fleming, Norman Martin, Stephen Grice, Thomas F. Hicks, Alex McLendon, Roland B. Crosby, Cameron Grayson, Jesse C. Mott, David Neely, David B. Thompson, Dabney Edwards, Jacob Slack, John Johnston, Alex Trotter, Richard N. Hough, Robert McLaughlin, L. D. Phillips, Samuel Lee, Jesse Sumrall, Jeremiah Crane, Howell Sumrall, William Goleman, Thomas Goleman, Samuel K. Lewis and Thomas Watts.<ref name=LowryMcCardle1891 /> The county was founded in 1833. [[Quitman, Mississippi|Quitman]], named for General [[John A. Quitman]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=LowryMcCardle1891>{{cite book |title=A History of Mississippi: From the Discovery of the Great River by Hernando DeSoto, Including the Earliest Settlement Made by the French Under Iberville, to the Death of Jefferson Davis |chapter=XXIV, Clarke County |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1meUmjGDshUC&pg=PA444 |first1=Robert |last1=Lowry |first2=William H. |last2=McCardle |publisher=R. H. Henry & Company |year=1891 |pages=460–462 |isbn=978-0-7884-4821-8 |access-date=July 19, 2021}}</ref> After the organization of Clarke County, the first school was built close to the old Tennessee Trace. Mr. Hennessy was the teacher and he came from Kinsale, Ireland. Religious services were held in the pioneer families’ home and on days of good weather, outside. The first actual church built was Cedar Creek Church, a Methodist church, and Elim Baptist Church followed in the 1840s. In the Spring of 1834, Joel Nail, a quadroon Indian, began moving the Choctaw Indians to Muskalresha, an old town in Neshoba County, Mississippi. These journeys continued through 1838 for all that would go. Some of the Choctaw Indians returned to their homes in Clarke County after arriving at Muskalresha.<ref name="John Hicks Evans 1902"/> In the 1830s there were no postal routes in Clarke County. However, there was a stagecoach line from Columbus, Mississippi to Winchester, Wayne County, Mississippi. The settlers of Clarke County would have to travel to Winchester, 25 miles away to receive their mail.<ref name="John Hicks Evans 1902"/> Ten black people were lynched in Clarke County, as documented in ''The Hanging Bridge'' by Jason Morgan Ward.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://bookshop.org/books/hanging-bridge-racial-violence-and-america-s-civil-rights-century/9780190905842 |title=Hanging Bridge: Racial Violence and America's Civil Rights Century |first=Jason Morgan |last=Ward |year=2018 |publisher=Oxford University Press |orig-year=2016 |isbn=978-0190905842}}</ref>
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