(Howell) Splann.[1][2][3] However, he grew up in nearby Corinth, Mississippi.[1] He married Maude Potts in 1901.[1] He was ordained a Christian minister in 1902.[1] He was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives to represent Alcorn County, as a Democrat, in 1915.[1] He died on March 24, 1962, in Kendrick, Mississippi.[3]