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"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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Martin Family
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"Millia Martin and [Eulashne] Martin Thompson. This Martin family lived on a 380 acre farm in the Taylor community. The family is noted for raising cattle, truck farm and following in the footsteps of their parents doing what is right in the sight of the Lord.

Walter Martin, the first born son of Oresta and Mary Ella Martin was an honorable member of the family whose death April 21, 1996 was swallowed up in victory. Leaving being a wife of 35 years & 3 children, older son a M.D.

Oresta and Mary Etta Martin and the more than 500 Martin descendants major source of training and strength was & is the family and the church."

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