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Show uu ' LAST DESCENDANT OF INDIGO KING IS DEAD NATCHEZ, Miss., May 19. With tho death of James Surgot, the last male descendant of one of tho famous Indigo kings of tho south has passed away. In 17S2, Pierre Surget obtained a plantation by Spanish grant and planted plant-ed Indigo. Indigo was being grown oxtenslvely In Louisiana at that time and found a Teady market. The Surget Sur-get fortune soon was made, and many voars afterwards the little town of Cherry Grove came into existence on a part of the plantation. It was there that James Surget was born and died. Ho left a daughter. Although S4 years old, James Surget Sur-get nover rode In an automobile nor used a telephone. A breeder of thoroughbred thor-oughbred race horses and a devotee of racing, he boasted that he never bet a dollar. The casket containing his body was. at his request, borne to tho family burying ground by old negroes, former for-mer slaves to the family. nn |