dropped corn many a day with two
governors, a
judge in my arms and a general on my back.”

The
children John and Margery Sullivan raised in Berwick, Maine were as
follows:

Benjamin
(1736-1767) who served in colonial navy, but was lost at sea.

Daniel
(1738-1782)
who fought in the Revolutionary War, but was captured by British
soldiers and
later died in a prison ship in New York harbor.

John (1740-1795)
who
distinguished himself as General Sullivan during the Revolutionary War.

James (1744-1808) who was Judge
James Sullivan and Governor of Massachusetts in 1807.

Mary
(1752-1827) who was their only daughter and was, like her father,
a
well-known schoolteacher.

and
Eben (born in 1753) who fought in the
Revolutionary War, was captured, but eventually released.

Sullivan's Hollow

When Tom Sullivan first settled there in the early 1800’s
from South Carolina, this part of southern Mississippi was still
Choctaw
territory.According to family lore,
Pappy Tom and his sons builttheir house by cutting pine logs in the
daytime
and assembling them after dark, using large bonfires for light.After clearing the land, the Sullivans farmed
it.By 1830 they were well established
in what became known in Smith county as Sullivan’s Hollow.

For
the next century
Sullivan’s Hollow developed a famous, some would say notorious,
reputation for
being “the meanest, roughest, toughest place around.”The meanest of the Sullivans there was
probably “Wild Bill” Sullivan in the early 1900’s:

"He
killed numerous individuals,
some say as many as fifty, although seldom could anyone name a victim.Others said he was the meanest son-of-a-gun
that ever walked the face of the earth and that he took his
grandfather's place
as the tyrant of the valley. His mother called him lead-proof, the clan
called
him wild, and his enemies called him everything their imaginative ire
could
think of.He drank heavily and brawled
weeknights as