Great Southern Bank Celebrates a Century of Excellent Community Banking
When a small group of far-sighted men from the tiny Clarke County Community of Quitman crowded around a desk in March 1902 and watched Mississippi Governor A. H. Longino place his signature on an historic Charter of Incorporation creating the Bank of Quitman, the idea of a Great Southern Bank system with 13 offices serving a seven county area of east central and south Mississippi was not even a dream.