Teoc, Mississippi

Teoc is an unincorporated community in Carroll County, Mississippi best known as the birthplace of the blues legend Mississippi John Hurt. [Lawrence Cohen 1996, inteview with John Hurt, liner notes, "Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 Okeh Recordings," Columbia/Legacy] It is about 7 miles northeast of Greenwood, on Teoc Road on the north side of Teoc Creek. Now largely unpopulated, this was once a small farming town. In the 1982 U.S. Geological Survey map, [USGS National Map, http://nmviewogc.cr.usgs.gov/viewer.htm] only two houses stood in Teoc; recent aerial photographs show two houses and one farm [Flash Earth aerials, http://www.flashearth.com/] .

William Alexander McCain, great-great grandfather of Arizona senator John McCain, owned a plantation and at least 52 slaves in Teoc in the 19th Century. He died fighting for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. [http://archive.salon.com/politics2000/feature/2000/02/15/mccain/print.html]

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Avalon, Mississippi