Perry Cohea

Perry Cohea was a pioneer of Tennessee and Mississippi. He is referred to as Major and was involved in the removal of the Choctaw Indians from their Mississippi homelands.

Career

Cohea served the general government in the Chickasaw Agency.[1] He was a courier for General James Robertson of Tennessee. He served as a town marshal in Columbia, Tennessee prior to removing to Mississippi. He moved to Lawrence County, Mississippi in 1822 and briefly became a merchant in Jackson, Mississippi in 1834. By an act of the legislature in 1836, he was appointed to serve as a Commissioner of Public Buildings to oversee the building of the State Capitol. He also served on a commission selected by Governor Charles Lynch to locate a site to build the penitentiary.[2]

Death and burial

He died in 1848 and is buried in the Greenwood Cemetery in Jackson, Mississippi.

References

  1. ↑ Putnam, A.W. History of Middle Tennessee p603 & Atkinson, James (1997) Records of the Old Southwest in the National Archives p106, 210, p232.
  2. ↑ McCain, W. Story of Jackson p36, p45, p77.


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