"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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Nick Tyson Family
“My parents
are Logue Tyson and Margaret Lockhart Tyson. My grandfather on my father's
side is Nick Tyson, brought a slave from VA, settled in Winona, MS before
the Civil War 1863; settled in Lafayette County, Taylor, MS after the war.
Married Elmira Holeman who had 7 children: 3 boys Logue, Ish, Hamp and 4
girls: Nanny, Minnie, Briget, Marie (acquired 400 acres of farm land). My
father Logue Tyson married Margaret Lockhart of Taylor, MS; my brothers are:
Alfred Tyson, who married Eva Toles; Preston Tyson married Elmira Brown;
Larnell Tyson married Mattie Galiday; Floyd Charles married MAry Smith;
Skylo (Jack)-Samuel Tyson married Annie Lee Egerson; Hezekiah Tyson married
Marie Rockett; Warren Tyson married Cherrie Narphlet; my sisters: Emma Tyson
, Mary Tyson Armstong, 4 children., Elvira, Tyson Campbell 2 boys. |
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