An Old Pioneer Home

The above photograph was taken of an old Itawamba County pioneer log home located north of Mud Creek south of the Ryans Well Community in Itawamba County during the 1950's. The old log structure no longer stands. This structure is an excellent example of the type of frontier structures built in Itawamba County during the 1830's.
 

Peppertown Pier

A pier at the Peppertown boat ramp on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway features a beautiful view of the waterway directly across from Fulton. The drive to the ramp crosses the Tombigbee River on old U.S. Highway 78 and travels through the river bottomlands where many sloughs and swamps can be seen from the old levee following the path of the old Fulton and Pontotoc Road built during the early 1840's.
 

Mary Jane Lowry Rogers: 1843-1909

Mary Jane Lowry was born June 29, 1843 and died March 20, 1909 in Oklahoma. She married Dr. Franklin Rogers (son of James Zimri Rogers and Amy Davis) on January 3, 1861 in Itawamba County. The family lived in the Marietta community before moving west to Texas during the 1870's. She was the daughter of Samuel Dickey Lowry and Rebecca Jane Coons.
 

Soy Beans and Corn on the Old Lemuel Beene Plantation

The Lemuel Beene plantation was located in northwestern Itawamba County in the fertile Twenty-Mile Creek and Tombigbee River area. Today the area is one of Itawamba County's larger agricultural areas where soy beans and corn were found on this hot summer day.
 

The Old Stephens Cemetery Chapel

The old Stephens Cemetery chapel just off River Road is a shady peaceful refuge on a hot Mississippi's summer day. The historic cemetery dates back to the mid 1800's and was once part of the old Zachariah Stephens plantation west of the Tombigbee River.
 

The River Port at Fulton on a Summer Afternoon

Port Itawamba at Fulton on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway is seen from the John E. Rankin Bridge on a summer afternoon.
 

Captain William Marion Inzer

William Marion Inzer was born in Gwinnett County, Georgia on June 7, 1837. His parents moved to Talladega County, Alabama when he was one year of age. By the start of the Civil War he was living in Itawamba County but joined the 58th Alabama Inantry where he served as a captain. He married Martha Jane Moor on October 30, 1864. Captain Inzer died on March 27, 1878 and is buried in the Providence Cemetery, north of Tremont in Itawamba County. His oldest daughter, Mary Elizabeth Inzer married Thomas Pinkney Weaver on February 8, 1882 and after he graduated from medical school they moved during 1896 to De Leon, Texas where he practiced until his death in 1921. Mary Elizabeth died during 1945.