General Notes

(source): Roger Charles Bull> bulldata@@hotmail.com

Burial: 1840, Bull Cemetery on Bull Plantation, Benton, Yazoo County, Ms.(on Hwy 16 just east of Benton exit)

Elected: Bet. 1823 - 1825, Served in the Legislature sessions as adelegate from Lawrence County. Reported in MS Gen. and Local HistQuarterly, Vol 111, No. 1, March 1974, p. 54.

Military service: 1812, Served as lieutenant in Georgia militia duringWar of 1812, as did his brother Robert Bull.

Note: Named after the American Revolutionary War Hero, James Hogan.

Property: September 08, 1835, Bought land in Yazoo County, Mississippi.Signed by Andrew Jackson. Ref. U.S. Dept. of Interior, Bureau of LandMngt, Washington 25, D.C.

Residence: Abt. 1817, James Hogan moved to Lawrence Co., MS (Lawrence Co.was divided in 1823 to become part of Yazoo Co., MS)

Born, reared and married in North Carolina. Moved to Georgia then toLawrence County, Mississippi. Moved to Yazoo County, Mississippi in 1834and settled on land that his son, J.C., had farmed for a year. While inLawrence County, he served as postmaster at "Ole Brook" and as amagistrate. He also represented his county in the State Legislature.

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Roger Bull has sent a group of researchers a copy of an email sent to theMississippi State Department of History and Archives, Jackson,Mississippi upon learning that a Historic cemetery may be destroyed inorder to widen a highway.


Subject:  James Hogan Bull Plantation
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 21:10:33 -0500
From: bulldata@@zebra.net
To: Mailing list members

Historic Preservation Division
Mississippi State Department of History and Archives
Jackson, Mississippi

Good people of the Preservation Division,

I have been informed by my cousins, John Ellison Bull, Jr. and his sisterSusan Bull, that the Bull Cemetery on Highway 16 just east of Benton,Mississippi, may be plowed under to make room for the highway's widening.This seems to be an oversight.

James Hogan Bull brought his family to Old Brook (now Brookhaven,Mississippi) in 1814. He became the first post master of that community.Later, he served as its magistrate for eight years. He, also, served asthe earliest representative of Lawrence County to the State ofMississippi Legislature. He is the son of Ambrose Bull, an AmericanRevolutionary War soldier and a person documented by Daughters of theAmerican Revolution and the Sons of the American Revolution. His brotheris a bonified War of 1812 soldier.

In 1820, the James Hogan Bull family moved to Yazoo County. Theyestablished a plantation of 3000 acres. The family lost 2000 acres afterthe Civil War. Bull family members have lived in the home and on theplantation continuously since 1820 to the present. That's almost 200years of history. There are original pieces of history, pictures,documents, furniture, farm implements on the estate.

James Hogan Bull is buried in the Bull Cemetery along with his familymembers and family members' spouses and children. Included in thoseburied in the Bull Cemetery is Hugh Ambrose Bull. He served about 40years as the Superintendent of Education for Yazoo County.

I would have to write a book in order to sustain the history and theimportance of that home and that cemetery to the communities of YazooCounty. The connecting families that have married into the Bull lineinclude the families of Fugate, Ellison, Battaile, Exum, Hendricks,Ledbetter, Pepper, Jordan, Maxwell, Alexander, Long, Sparks, Campbell,Johnson, Pearce, Stanford, Boyette, Broadfoot and many more.

Is there anything that we can do to preserve this historic location? Arethere alternatives to destroying it?

Please, respond to this correspondence. Your input is vital.

Thank you for your time and considerations!

Roger Charles Bull
Son of Walter Lafayette Bull
Grandson of Henry Lafayette Bull
Great Grandson of John