64 Years AgoJune 1958 The U.S. House Appropriations Committee on June 9 approved million in funding for a new Jackson Lock and Dam on the Tombigbee River, and .7 million for the Fort Gaines Lock and Dam. William Writ Clarke, a Jackson pioneer and businessman, died June 12 at Jackson Hospital. He was 78. Clarke was a partner and then owner of the W. G. Bevil Company, established in Jackson in 1900. Bevil was his stepfather. The two came to Jackson in 1899 by the steamboat “Hard Cash” from Choctaw County with the idea of starting a business which...

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