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COMMISSIONERS OF THE MONTH
Ralph Sewell
Name: Ralph Sewell
Birthdate: July 31
County you serve: Humphreys County
Family history: Married to Nellie Hill and they have five children.
Education: McNair High School, Class of 1961.
Church: Christian Valley M.B. Church (serves as chair of deacon board, superintendent of Sunday school and one the church trustee).
Hobbies are: Gardening and spending time with family.
Comments: It is indeed a pleasure as well as an honor to serve as Levee Board Commissioner for Humphreys County for a total of 24 years. In December it will be 25 years.
Benjamin Sykes Sturdivant
Name: Benjamin Sykes Sturdivant
Birthdate: March 2
County you serve: Tallahatchie County
Family history: 5th Generation Farmer.
Education: BS- Mississippi State University; MBA- University of Texas in Austin.
Church: Glendora United Methodist Church.
Hobbies are: Tennis, Golf, Traveling, and Fishing.
Comments: President of the YMD Levee Board From 1997-2013. Thanks for the opportunity to serve.
The Board of Levee Commissioners for the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta is charged with the responsibility to erect, maintain, and operate a system of levees to protect the people and property of the Delta from damages of high waters of the Mississippi River; ...
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The first levees were constructed more than 3,000 years ago in ancient Egypt, where a system of levees was built along the left bank of the Nile River for over 600 miles. The Mississippi levees represent one of the largest such systems found anywhere in the world.
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