Samuel Newton Berryhill

Major Works (Poetry)

• Talla Homa’s Story and Other Works (1973)
• Backwood Poems (1878)

Biography

Born in 1832 in Pickens County Alabama. Moved to Webster County around the age of 2. Contracted polio in his early teenage years. Died in 1887 in Bellefontaine, Mississippi.

Related Websites

• Samuel Newton Berryhill’s grave marker
• Sheridan (poem)
• Excerpted page with biographical information from “Lives of Mississippi Authors: 1817-1967
• The Spectral Army by Berryhill
• The American Literary Blog page about “Birth of Berryhill: settled down in a wilderneess”