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Stennis, Samuel
DeBerry, Dr.
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Dr. Samuel
DeBerry Stennis (1849-1925) with granddaughter Annie Gene Clark, photo
circa 1915. He was a respected physician and merchant who lived in
Moscow, Mt. Nebo, and from 1910 in the house he built in DeKalb. He
married Jane E. Adams (1854-1895) first and Susan Anastasia Clark
second. Granddaughter Annie Gene Clark married C.W. "Footsie"
Gary (popular Kemper County agent from 1934-1937) in 1936.
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The three daughters
of Dr. Samuel DeBerry and Jane E. Adams Stennis, circa 1900. Left to
right: Elizabeth V. "Lizzie" (1884-1978) who married Eugene
Richardson Clark, Annie Cornelia (1877-1972) who married Dr. Murdock McRae
and Mary A. (1881-1965), who with a masters degree from Peabody in
Nashville, became a nutrition specialist for the state of Florida
(authoring at least two books) and then returned to Kemper County to work
in Extension and County Welfare.
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The three sons of of Dr. S.D.
Stennis and Jane E. Adams Stennis, photo circa 1900. Left to right:
Hampton Howell Jr. (1879-1943), who married Alma McWilliams from
Blackwater area and lived in Moscow and then on Route 39 about seven
miles south of DeKalb; Thomas A. (1888-1975), who married Helen Ross and
lived in DeKalb; and Dr. Dudley (1875-1948) who married Lula R. Hannah
and practiced medicine in Newton County, Mississippi
Built by Mr.
Rush in the Kipling Community in 1840, this house was sold to Hampton
Howell and Cornelia Adams Stennis, parents of Laurance and Sen. John C.
Stennis.
From
"Kemper County, Mississippi - A Pictorial History", placed here with permission by the Kemper County Historical Commission.
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