Ben Chiles, colored, ex-representative of this county in the State Legislature during the years ’76 and ’77, was conducted by Sheriff Quinn last Monday to Jackson, and placed in the Lunatic Asylum. -Starkville Times.

The First Black Legislators in Mississippi
Ben Chiles, colored, ex-representative of this county in the State Legislature during the years ’76 and ’77, was conducted by Sheriff Quinn last Monday to Jackson, and placed in the Lunatic Asylum. -Starkville Times.