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- Pine Belt police arrest 10 in drug raids
Marion and Jones County authorities executed several drug raids this week. Eight people have been arrested in a drug raid in Marion County when the sheriff's department and the Pearl River Basin Narcotics Task ...
- Ellisville to buy new fire truck
The Ellisville Board of Aldermen voted to pay for a new fire truck at its Tuesday meeting.
- JCJC Partnership with Franklin University: Successful
Special to The Star ELLISVILLE - Options. That's what the partnership between Franklin University and Jones County Junior College provides in benefits for students.
- McDaniel expecting tough session
A tough Miss. Legislative Session convenes at noon Tuesday in Jackson. With the national economic woes and other issues that have been discussed over the years, committee meetings and debate are sure to create ...
- Boy, girl win new bicycles
JONES COUNTY - JUST IN TIME for Christmas, one lucky girl and one lucky boy each walked away with a new bicycle, compliments of Sweet Peppers Deli in Laurel.
- It was an eventful summer
Editor's Note: This is the third in a series of stories highlighting the top local news stories of 2008.
- Vesta G. Holifield
ELLISVILLE - Services will be held at 2 p.m. today at Memory Chapel Funeral Home for Vesta Gladys Holifield, 84, of Ellisville, who died Dec.
- Hundreds turn out for annual turkey give-a-way
The line looped around West Ellisville Baptist Church Saturday as State Senator Chris McDaniel sponsored his annual turkey give-a-way. McDaniel has sponsored this event for the third year in a row.
- John E. McWilliams
SOSO - Memorial services will be held at a later date for John Eugene McWilliams, 78, of Kerrville, Texas, who died Dec.
- Fishing show to feature Ellisville lake
JACKSON - The Mississippi Development Authority Tourism Division Outdoor Marketing Program today announced that the VERSUS network will feature Mississippi on an episode of "One More Cast." The Adventure Lake ...
- JCJC spring registration is Jan. 8
ELLISVILLE - Jones County Junior College will hold spring registration for students taking night classes from 5 - 6 p.m. Jan.
- In appreciation for 'Light the Park' volunteers - past and present
In the fall of 1996 my friend, John Carey, looked at Mason Park and imagined a Winter Wonderland of lights - a birthday celebration for Jesus - for all to enjoy.
- Officials urge fire safety
Jones County fire officials are stressing fire safety and awareness following a recent increase in residential fires in a year already seeing more fires than usual.
- Accused dog killer denied bond
Jones County Judge Billy Joe Landrum has refused to grant bond to an accused dog killer.
- Former clerk charged with embezzlement
A former Jones County deputy Chancery Clerk was charged with embezzlement Tuesday.
- JCJC business honor society inducts students
ELLISVILLE - The Chi Lambda chapter of Alpha Beta Gama International Business Honor Society at Jones County Junior College recently inducted eight students into the society.
- Nitro and Nitrus wow crowds after Ellisville Christmas Parade
ELLISVILLE SHORTLY AFTER the Ellisville Christmas Parade on Dec. 6, Nitro - the world's largest trick horse - and his sidekick, Nitrus, took center stage.
- Jones native studying osteopathic medicine
ELLISVILLE - With frustration mounting from the continual rising cost of health care and medications today, many people are starting to explore alternative treatment options.
- Snow Closings
The Laurel and Jones County school districts are both closed Thursday due to the snow, as well as Jones County Junior College.
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City DescriptionEllisville is a city in Jones County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 3,465 at the 2000 census.
The city is named for Powhatan Ellis, a former U.S. Senator for Mississippi and descendant of Chief Powhatan, father of Pocahontas. Ellisville was the major commercial and population center of Jones County until being supplanted by nearby Laurel in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. During the American Civil War, Ellisville and Jones County was a center of pro-Union resistance. Though there were many anti-secession movements and actions throughout the Confederacy, the "Free and Sovereign State of Jones" (or sometimes "Kingdom of Jones") had from the very beginning posed the most serious and persistent threat, and even went as far as drafting its own constitution. Irregulars formed the Knight Company and were led by Captain Newt Knight, First Lieutenant Jasper Collins, and Second Lieutenant William Wesley Sumrall. Along with as many as 100 other southern men, they fought several skirmishes with Confederate units sent to crush the rebellion. Referenced in Ken Burns' monumental documentary The Civil War; Knight's rebellion was also dramatized in the 1948 motion picture ... Read MoreCity Contained By:- Jones County
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