Site of The Louis Winston House

Louis J. Winston, son of a prominent white planter and an enslaved mother, was born in 1844. After the Civil War, Winston served as a policeman, sheriff, tax accessor, and long-time clerk of court. He was also a practicing attorney and planter. Winston founded the Colored Building and Loan Association, which financed the sales of new houses to African Americans. He was also the manager of the Mississippi Cooperative and Benefit Association. Louis Winston’s tombstone is the only tombstone in the Natchez City Cemetery surmounted by a bronze bust. The bust was sculpted and signed in 1921 by Isaac Scott Hathaway (1872-1967), an African American sculptor born in Lexington, Kentucky.