Although Midnight is unincorporated, it has a zip code of 39115. Population in 2010 was less than 200 people.


"How old would ya be, if ya didn't know how old you was?" - Satchel Paige. My purpose in creating this blog, Meridiana, is to identify and capture an essence of those people, places and things that have contributed and, in some cases, continue to contribute meaning, texture and enrichment to the lives of those of us who grew up in Meridian, Mississippi during the ‘50s 'n' ‘60s. And, maybe i'll add a few surprises, too.
Favorite Quotations:
"They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm." - Dorothy Parker
"Those who wander are not necessarily lost." - J.R.R. Tolkien
"You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." - Anne Lamott
"A maid laughing is half taken." - anonymous Elizabethan poet
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
*You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around and why his parents will always wave back." - William D. Tammeus
8 comments:
Very, so very, nice.....
My dad was born there. They left in 1947. The house he was born in is now a catfish lake.
I am writing a book about the Rev. George W. Lee, a voting-rights pioneer in the Delta. In the late 1930s and perhaps into the 1940s, he had a church in Midnight called the New Bethlehem MB Church. Does anyone know anything about this small church, where the cotton gin was in Midnight in the late 1930s, and something about the town in those days? Bruce Dierenfield, professor of History, Canisius College, Buffalo, New York (dierenfb@canisius.edu)
Does anyone know if there are still people living in Midnight Mississippi?
I currently live in Midnight and have since 2002.
Ray Ray is there anything you can say good or even bad about Midnight? My Granddad, my Mother her Sister and other relatives came from there to Pittsburgh then to Chicago? I'm Writing a story and I'd be grateful for any true facts esp about the past and old history of the place.
My Grandaddy Ira Evans lived in Midnight by the Sunflower River.We would ride the fiery back and forth across the river as it would take cars back and forth.He would get his water from the community water in a big barrel in the back of his truck.I remember him catching crawfish in the ditch and using it as bait to fish in his small boat on the Sunflower river.We as children would play in the Cotten fields.I have so many good memories visiting my Grandaddy
My mom was born in midnight Mississippi with 16 of her brothers and sisters the grandparents are from there as will last name Lee, Washington and Milton
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