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Governors, Congressmen, and Kinfolk: The Extraordinary Story of LL and Sallie Mayes
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Governors, Congressmen, and Kinfolk: The Extraordinary Story of LL and Sallie Mayes

Greenwood Cemetery has more than its fair share of political royalty.

Governors, senators, congressmen, judges, military heroes, mayors, legislators, state-wide elected officials and civic leaders all rest beneath its trees. Yet when it comes to pure political bloodlines — the sheer concentration of governors, congressmen, Supreme Court connections, university chancellors, and Mississippi dynasties converging into one marriage — it would be hard to top Lucius Lamar “LL” Mayes and his wife Sallie Harris Mayes.

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