A pioneer physician in E. Franklin Co., Dr. Rodriguez practiced here, 1850-1879. Born in Tepian, Cuba, of Castilian Spanish parents. Immigrated to U.S. and studied medicine at Natchez. Married Rebecca Lazarus, 1851. — — Map (db m117339) HM
In May 1964, Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles
Eddie Moore, two African American teenagers,
became the first victims of Freedom Summer
when they were kidnapped by members of the
KKK. Taken into the Homochitto National Forest
and tortured, they . . . — — Map (db m193438) HM
Kidnapped by the Ku Klux Klan near this spot on May 2, 1964. Dee and Moore were later beaten, attached to iron weights, and drowned in the old Mississippi River. Their partial remains were first discovered on July 12,& 13 1964. — — Map (db m192868) HM
