Perry Cohea

Perry Cohea was an American pioneer of the early federal period in

removal of the Choctaw

Career

In Tennessee, Cohea served the United States government in the Chickasaw Agency.^[1] He was a courier for General James Robertson of Tennessee. He also served as a town marshal in Columbia, Tennessee prior to removing to Mississippi.

In 1822 Cohea moved to

Jackson

, Mississippi in 1834.

By an act of the legislature in 1836, he was appointed to serve as a Commissioner of Public Buildings to oversee the building of the State Capitol, after the territory was admitted as a state. He also served on a commission selected by Governor Charles Lynch to determine a site on which to build the state penitentiary.^[2]

Death and burial

Cohea died in 1848. He is buried in the Greenwood Cemetery in Jackson, Mississippi.

References

^ Putnam, A.W. History of Middle Tennessee, p603 & Atkinson, James (1997) Records of the Old Southwest in the National Archives p106, 210, p232.
^ McCain, W. Story of Jackson, p36, p45, p77.

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[1] Putnam, A.W. History of Middle Tennessee, p603 & Atkinson, James (1997) Records of the Old Southwest in the National Archives p106, 210, p232.

[2] McCain, W. Story of Jackson, p36, p45, p77.

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