Sam Olden, Jr., died at home August 12, 2022, at the age of 103. He was born on a cotton plantation four miles up in the Delta from Yazoo City on March 27, 1919, the son of Samuel B. Olden and Catherine Clark Olden, both natives of Yazoo City, whose families had been in Yazoo County since the 1830s and early 1840s.
