Antibank was a settlement located on the Big Black River close to present day Richardson Rd. The following is from Report of the Mississippi Historical Commission Publications, Vol. V 1902. (I have edited some of the misspellings) Antibank. — The old town of Antibank was first settled in 1836 by T. L. Sumrall, who came from Clinton, Hinds county, to Antibank, having been an employee in the Land Office there before its removal to Jackson. Mr. Sumrall built a store house on the high bank of Big Black opposite to the ferry of T. A. Holloman of Yazoo county, and the Dickson Bros, (for whom Mr. Sumrall was guardian), began a mercantile business, and kept a warehouse for cotton, which was shipped by keelboats down Big Black to Grand Gulf on the Mississippi river. An unfortunate occurrence destroyed their business venture. The older Dickson and one of his clerks, Lawrence Slay, were wrestling on the gallery of Mr. Sumrall, when Slay threw Dick- son and broke his neck. The many farmers around received their supplies at this land- ing. Many of their descendants — the Trotters, Slays, Reynolds, Goads, Bush and Birdsongs — still live in this community. The Vicksburg and Jackson railroad (now the A. & V.) was finished to the Big Black, and then to Bolton a few years later, when the shipping of cotton and supplies from Antibank ceased and the place became part of a cotton farm. The buildings were removed to the lower end of this large tract of land by Mr. Sumralls son-in-law, Mr. Stratton, and became a farm house on one of the finest plantations of Big Black. The site of Anti- bank is now owned by James and George Ashford, and still produces fine cotton and corn. * The writer is indebted to the Hon. Clay Sharkey, of Jackson, Miss., for the sketch of Antibank.
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