Editing Merigold, Mississippi (section)

==Notable people==
*[[Charlie Capps (politician)|Charlie Capps]], member of the [[Mississippi House of Representatives]] from 1972 to 2005<ref name="Congress2010">{{cite book|author=United States. Congress|title=Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d0wpckIzj2kC&pg=PA7913|year=2010|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=7913}}</ref>
*[[Esther Golar]], Illinois state representative, was born in Merigold.<ref>[http://www.thegatenewspaper.com/2015/09/state-rep-esther-golar-laid-to-rest/ State Rep. Esther Golar laid to rest]</ref>
*[[Walter B. Parks]], member of the [[Mississippi Legislature]] from 1912 to 1920<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rowland |first=Dunbar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b8sGAQAAIAAJ |title=The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi |date=1917 |publisher=Department of Archives and History |pages=792 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Larry Speakes]], acting press secretary in the [[Ronald Reagan]] administration, grew up in Merigold.<ref>'Larry Speakes, Public Face of Reagan Era, Dies at 74,' ''[[The New York Times]],'' Michael D. Shear, January 10, 2014</ref>