>From the Lizzie Mitchell Pike History book written in 1932: "Another pioneer was John Means who came to this section from South Carolina, and built the pretty old home now occupied by J.W. Holloway, a mile east of the depot. He was an energetic man of various enterprises. He had a farm, a woodworks and a blacksmith shop, built old-fashioned cotton presses over Pike and adjoining counties, engaged in saw-milling and had a store in which was the post office. After John Means began his enterprises other families settled around him, making a hamlet which took the name of Meansville - later "Old Meansville." Judge J.W. Means was his son and the Willis, Aldridge, Collier, Howard, and Mann families of Pike and Lamar are lineal descendants." Lynn