Lamar County

One of the representatives backing it was B.B. Buckley, a cousin of the man Purvis had been convicted of killing, and Purvis got $5,000.

He farmed in Lamar County, married, and raised a family.

He died of heart trouble in a hospital in Lumberton, Mississippi, on October 13th, 1938.

And the wire story that reported it said he had owed the last two-thirds of his life to a faulty hangman's noose.

Does the county own that land?

The, uh, Forrest County and Lamar County own it.

Okay, so you share it.

We're in partnership, yes.