Aberdeen Mayor Dwight Stevens
To be on MPB Mississippi Antique Showcase.

Aberdeen Mayor Dwight Stevens, pictured below on MPB Mississippi Antique Showcase from Historic Natchez, Mississippi on October 3, 2024 at 7 PM on Mississippi Public Broadcasting.




Annual Fall Auction


Saturday, October 5, 2024 at 10:00am
At Our Gallery
Stevens Auction Company
129 East Commerce Street
Aberdeen, MS 39730

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Important oil on canvas of William M. Byrd in original frame and condition. See accompanying history and information on famous Mississippi Artist Cornelius Hankins of Guntown, Mississippi.

William McKendree Byrd
Associate Justice - 1866 - 1868
Born: December 1, 1819; Perry County, Mississippi
Died: September 24, 1874; Selma, Alabama


William McKendree Byrd attended Mississippi College and then LaGrange College in Franklin County. He graduated from the latter school in 1838. After reading law in Holly Springs, Mississippi, he moved to Alabama and was admitted to the bar in 1841. He began practicing law in Linden and was elected in 1851 to represent Marengo County in the state legislature. Two years later he moved to Selma to continue his law practice.

Byrd's judicial career began in 1863, when he was elected chancellor of the middle division of Alabama. Two years later, the legislature elected him associate justice of the Supreme Court, and he assumed the office on January 2, 1866. He was removed from that post in 1868 as a result of Reconstruction ligislation passed by Congress. Byrd then returned to Selma to practice law. He died in a train wreck.

William McKendree Byrd married Mariah H. Massie, of Tennessee. They had four Children.

The Artist

Cornelius Hankins was born Juy 12, 1863, near Guntown, Itawamba County, Mississippi, the sixth of eight children of Reberend Edward Lockee Hankins and Annie Mary (McFadden) Hankins. He contracted smallpox as a boy after his mother cared for Confederate soldiers. As a result, he was deaf until he was eight years old and had to be tutored at home.

He first studied art under E. M. Gardner in Nashville. Subsequently he worked with William Merritt Chase in New York City and with Robert Henri at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts. European travel suplemented these studies. He settle in Nashville in 1900 and was associated for a while with George W. Chambers in the Nashville School of Art.

He painted landscapes and still lifes as well as more than a thousand portraits. At the time of his death in Nashville in 1946, nine of his portraits were said to be in the Tennessee State Capitol, six in the Alabama, two in the Mississippi, and one in the Louisiana capitol buildings.

Tennessee Painting the Past, Tennessee Fine Arts Center, Cheekwood, 1960.





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