There is more than one Port Gibson, as company members were soon to realize.
Port Gibson has no Jewish community left to worship there.
That story played out in Port Gibson earlier than in the region as a whole, but its outlines are familiar.
But Port Gibson's population, now about 2,400, peaked around the beginning of the century.
One of the college's original buildings now serves as the city hall of Port Gibson.
Port Gibson is 80 percent black, and poor.
Time ran out shortly before her patience did, and they headed back to Port Gibson.
It would be driven down to Port Gibson later that day.
A deputy would drive her car back to Port Gibson following the ambulance.
They reached Port Gibson as the ambulance, followed by the sheriff's car, was pulling out of the gate.