University of Mississippi Special Collections-African American exhibit-alexander family

"We Cannot Walk Alone:" Images and History of the African-American Community.
Lafayette County, Mississippi. An "Open Doors Exhibition." April through August 2003.

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Stella Mayes Alexander Family
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      "Father Lee Harris came from North Carolina to Mississippi in the 1800s and worked on a plantation in Lafayette County as a sharecropper, married Stella Porter Alexander in 1900, bought a small farm in Woodson Ridge community.
      Lee Harvey Alexander and Stella Porter Alexander begat 3 children: Stella Mayes, Johnny Mayes, and Thomas Mayes.
      Children attended Old Liberty Hill, a rural school in Lafayette County. Mother Stella's hobby was sewing and fishing."
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