Place:Essex, Quitman, Mississippi, United States

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Essex is an inhabited place.

Mr. J.J. McPherson came to this neighborhood in 1902 from Essex, England when the wolves still claimed a few privileges, the cane was about twenty feet high and there was nothing that could be called a highway in the whole neighborhood. Mr. McPherson began at once to clear the timber and turn it into lumber for shipment. He owned and operated one of the largest plantations in Quitman County, consisting of some three thousand acres wtih approximately one thousand one hundred acres in cultivation. He conducted a large mercantile business established chiefly for the accommodation of tenants on his place, but doing quite an extensive cash business besides. Mr. McPherson is said to be about the only one who remained all through the development of his neighborhoon. He was a member of the Board of Supervisors.