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| | Raleigh Mississippi |
 | | Smith County, as recited in the establishing act, was named "in honour of major David Smith, of Hinds County". |
 | | Raleigh may have been named directly for Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618), the famed English sailor and sometime favorite of Queen Elizabeth I, but it probably was named for Raleigh, North Carolina, which, like Raleigh County, West Virginia, was named for Sir Walter. |
 | | Smith County, an original county of the Choctaw Cession of 1830, with a small tract from Rankin County added to form its territory, was the thirteenth county created by the act of December 23, 1833. |
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