The following information was copied from an 1891 edition of Goodspeed's History of Mississippi. M.C. Cummings Hon. M.C. Cummings, a prominent farmer and citizen of Itawamba county, Miss., was a son of Levy and Naoma (Keas) Cummings. He is the sixth of their family of eleven children, and was born in Limestone county, Ala., October 17, 1810. His father was born in Virginia about 1780, and was a member of one of the old families of that state who participated in the war of 1812. He was married in Virginia, and later removed to Kentucky, and thence to Limestone county, Ala., where he died in 1845. When he removed to Alabama the country was new and peopled with Indians, who were at one time so troublesome that he was obliged to leave the state, but returned a year or two later. He and his wife were members of the Primitive Baptist church. The latter died when Mr. Cummings, our subject, was about five years of age. She was a native of Virginia. The children were named Mason, Nancy, Jordan, Isaac, Catherine, David, M.C., Malachi, Levy, Rial, Betsey and Washington. Of these, only M.C., Levy and Rial are now living. The subject of this notice was reared upon his father's plantation, and began to do for himself at the age of eighteen years. He emigrated to Western Tennessee and settled near Perdy, where he engaged in planting. He lived there several years, and in February, 1833, came to Columbus, Miss., where he married Miss Sarah, daughter of Hugh and Jennie (Thompson) Rogers, who were natives of South Caroline. Their five children were named as follows: John, William, Hugh, Jennie and Joseph. Mrs. Cummings was born in South Caroline, in 1815. She has borne her husband no children, but they have reared twenty-seven orphan children. The family removed from Columbus to this county in 1836, and located on the present site of the Fulton hotel. Mr. Cummings was the first settler in Fulton, and came at a time when the country was practically unihabited except by Indians, who were not hostile, however, but showing good dispositions toward the settlers and who lived by hunting and fishing, some of them raising small patches of corn.