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Harvey Alex Shannon (c. 1831Шаблон:Em dashMay 14, 1906) was an American medical doctor, state legislator, and newspaper publisher in Vicksburg, Mississippi.[1]

Biography

Harvey Shannon was born in about 1831 near Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee.[2] Shannon served as a senior first lieutenant in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War (and commanding during Swett's Mississippi Battery).[3][4][5]

He was co-publisher of The Vicksburg Times, established in 1866. He was married on June 4, 1868 to Lucy Vick Irwin of Carroll County, Mississippi.[2]

The Шаблон:Convert of land for the Beulah Cemetery in Vicksburg, the first Black cemetery in the city, was purchased in 1884 by Shannon and his wife.[6] The cemetery was associated with the fraternal organization Vicksburg Tabernacle No. 19 Independent Order of Brothers and Sisters of Love and Charity.[6]

His brother Fountain E. Pitts Shannon (or F.E.P. Shannon) died of Yellow fever in 1883.[7] Harvey Shannon died on May 14, 1906 in Nashville.[2]

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