Adam Monroe Byrd

Adam Byrd was born in Sumter County, Alabama, in 1859 and studied at Cooper Institute in Daleville before graduating from the Cumberland University law school in Lebanon, Tennessee, in 1884. He opened a law office in Philadelphia the next year. He sat in the state senate from 1889 to 1896 and on the chancery bench from 1897 to 1903, then represented Mississippi's fifth district in Congress until 1911. Denied renomination in 1910, he went back to practicing law at home. He died in Hot Springs, Arkansas, on June 21, 1912, and is buried in Philadelphia.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old Neshoba County Jail — steps away
  The 1955 jail in downtown Philadelphia where James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were held on June 21, 1964, hours before they were murdered.
• Chahta Immi Cultural Center — 4.8 mi
  The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians' own museum and cultural center at Pearl River, with basketry, artifacts and the tribe's guidance on what visitors may see.
• Mount Zion Methodist Church — 6.8 mi
  The Black church in Longdale burned by the Klan on June 16, 1964, rebuilt by its congregation, and the place Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner had gone to visit when they were murdered.
• Nanih Waiya — 14 mi
  The Mother Mound of the Choctaw in Winston County, a sacred origin place returned to the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in 2008.

More markers nearby

• Marty Gamblin — steps away
• Marty Stuart — 0.3 mi
• Otis Rush — 0.6 mi
• Bob Ferguson — 6.7 mi