Teoc is an
unincorporated community in
Carroll County, Mississippi and is part of the
Greenwood, Mississippi micropolitan area approximately northeast of
Greenwood Green wood is unseasoned wood.
Greenwood or Green wood may also refer to:
People
* Greenwood (surname)
Settlements
Australia
* Greenwood, Queensland, a locality in the Toowoomba Region
* Greenwood, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth
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on Teoc Road along Teoc Creek.
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History
Located about eight miles northwest of North Carrollton, Teoc is probably the oldest settlement in Carroll County. The community takes its name from Teoc Creek.
A post office operated under the name Teoc from 1860 to 1907.
William Alexander McCain, great-great grandfather of Arizona former senator
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John McCain
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, purchased Teoc Plantation in 1851 and owned at least 52 slaves there. He died in 1863, fighting for the Confederacy
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* Confederate state or confederation, a union of sovereign groups or communities
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during the American Civil War. Bill McCain, a descendant and cousin of Senator McCain, still owns 1500 of the plantation's former . Since 2003, black and white descendants of the community at Teoc have attended family reunions organized by the black McCains, descended from two of the plantation's slaves, Isom and Lettie, and Henderson McCain. After the Civil War, the blacks remained closely entwined with Teoc, remaining as tenants of William Alexander's son, John Sidney McCain, and adopting the McCain surname.
Black people surnamed McCain in Teoc, organizers of schooling for African-American children in the 1880s, were local leaders in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
Notable people
* William Hemingway, mayor of Jackson, Mississippi from 1901 to 1905 and member of the Mississippi House of Representatives
The Mississippi House of Representatives is the lower house of the Mississippi Legislature, the lawmaking body of the U.S. state of Mississippi. According to the state constitution of 1890, it is to comprise no more than 122 members elected fo ...
in 1920.[Lawrence Cohen 1996, interview with John Hurt, liner notes, ''Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 Okeh Recordings,'' Columbia/Legacy]
* George Redditt, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1916 to 1920
References
Unincorporated communities in Mississippi
Unincorporated communities in Carroll County, Mississippi
Greenwood, Mississippi micropolitan area
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