DeKalb

From "Kemper County, Mississippi - A Pictorial History", placed here with permission by the Kemper County Historical Commission.

The general store of S.D. Stennis, located on the northwest corner of the courthouse square in DeKalb. The photo is probably in 1913 when the store opened. The store was founded by S.D. and his brother Hampton Howell Stennis, Sr. and operated over the years mostly by Thomas A., son of S.D. In the first floor and in 1972, Eddie J. Briggs, attorney, occupied the first floor and in 1974 he bought the building. Occupants upstairs have included the early John C. Stennis, attorney and U.S. Senator; John D. Henderson, an investigator/speculator (who also lived there); John McCulley, attorney; and the Beatrice Smith Beauty Shop.