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Perry Cohea was a pioneer of Tennessee and Mississippi. He is referred to as Major and was involved in the removal of the Choctaw Indians from their Mississippi homelands.
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Career
Cohea served the general government in the Chickasaw Agency. He was a courier for General James Robertson of Tennessee. He served as a town marshal in Columbia, Tennessee prior to removing to Mississippi. He moved to Lawrence County, Mississippi in 1822 and briefly became a merchant in Jackson, Mississippi in 1834. By an act of the legislature in 1836, he was appointed to serve as a Commissioner of Public Buildings to oversee the building of the State Capitol. He also served on a commission selected by Governor Charles Lynch to locate a site to build the penitentiary.
Death and burial
He died in 1848 and is buried in the Greenwood Cemetery in Jackson, Mississippi.