In the early autumn of 1903, Joseph Weeks, a man living in the small railroad town of Harriston in Jefferson County, Mississippi, reached the end of his life on September 28. Harriston at that time was a modest, unincorporated community strung out along the tracks of what was then an Illinois Central Railroad line, a place where trains and the dusty curve of Old Highway 61 linked isolated farms and sawmills to the wider world. The town had grown up in the late nineteenth century, named for Gener
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