Lampton Auditorium

Mary Jane Conerly Lampton (1828-1879), a mother, teacher, and diarist, grew up in Old Pike County, now Walthall. She married Benjamin Lampton, a planter who became a successful pioneer merchant of Old Pike County and Marion County, and together they had nine children. She was one of the first public school teachers in Old Pike County and taught for decades in a school located in Conerly's Post Office, named for her brother, in what is now Tylertown. The first mayor of Tylertown recalled that she had the best judgment of any woman he ever knew, and her eldest son, Walter, speaking on behalf of her five sons, said they thought their mother was the best woman ever born and had the auditorium erected as a small expression of their love and admiration for her.

Brookhaven, Mississippi · United States