Interesting Facts about Mississippi

• Among geographic curiosities is the so-called Singing River, the Pascagoula. It sometimes makes a sound like the humming of bees, and this has never been explained.
• When Hernando de Soto died, his followers were so afraid of the Indians that they slipped his body into the Mississippi in the dead of night, at a spot thought to have been near present-day Natchez.
• The mother-daughter combination of Maria and Miranda Younghans manned the Biloxi lighthouse for a total of 62 years.
• The five sons of the William Henry Cox family all died tragic deaths. Among the tragedies were one son who was killed riding his horse up a stairway, one who killed his bride and committed suicide, and another who died in a wagon as it crashed over a cliff.
• Mississippi is the only state whose state flower is the blossom of the state tree.