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Oral history.; Mr. Monroe "Bill" Winston was born September 12, 1907, in Caseyville, Lincoln County, Mississippi. His parents were sharecroppers on the Red Star plantation, the same plantation where his grandmother had been a slave. Mr. Winston attended school through the second grade, stopping to begin work in a brickyard. He worked in the brickyard until he was twenty years old. In 1929, before he turned twenty-two, Mr. Winston married. He and his wife had two sons. After his first wife passed away, Mr. Winston remarried to Gladys Winston. As an adult, Mr. Winston farmed, worked as a mechanic, worked in an oil mill, did odd jobs, and worked as a driver for several people. He continues to live in Brookhaven, in the same house he has lived in since 1926.