Marshall McNeese (Noxubee County)
State House: 1870-1871, 1874-1877
Born: March 1837 in Georgia
Carpenter and farmer. Appointed postmaster of Shuqualak in 1875 (U.S., Appointments of U. S. Postmasters, 1832-1971). Listed on the 1870, 1880 and 1900 census in Noxubee County with wife and children. According to descendants, he eventually left Mississippi and lived in St. Louis, Missouri.
“On the east side [of Shuqualak], going north, was the Haynes hotel, back of which one block was the Shuqualak Academy (Capt. Darricutt, teacher); McNeese’s blacksmith shop (Pete Beasley, slave, his blacksmith); McNeese’s wood shop (Nathan and Marshall McNeese, slaves, the workmen); Sam Jackson’s wagon-making establishment, Stout’s private boarding house, and 200 yards farther north, McNeese’s saw mill.”
(J. J. Haynie, “Early Recollections of Old Noxubee,” The Macon Beacon, July 13, 1913)
