Giles is an unincorporated community in Kemper County, Mississippi, United States.[1]
Giles is located on Mississippi Highway 16, east of Scooba.
History
Jacob Giles built a plantation here in 1835.[2]
A Mississippi historical marker is located at the Neville-Giles Cemetery in Giles.[3][4]
The population in 1900 was 45.[5]
Notable people
- Shepherd S. Neville, planter and merchant in Giles; represented Sumter County, Alabama, in 1882 state legislature.[6]
References
- ^ a b "Giles". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ Mississippi; a guide to the Magnolia state. Viking. 1938. p. 370.
- ^ "Giles-Neville Cemetery". Historical Marker Project. Retrieved January 17, 2025.
- ^ "Historical Markers in Kemper County". MISSISSIPPI HISTORICAL MARKERS. Retrieved January 20, 2025.
- ^ Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Vol. 1. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 789.
- ^ Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi. Vol. 2. Goodspeed. 1891. p. 504. ISBN 978-1-4556-0119-6.
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| Footnotes | ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties | |
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