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Wesson, MS -- U.S. town in Mississippi
Population (2000): 1693
Housing Units (2000): 471
Land area (2000): 2.300326 sq. miles (5.957818 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.002829 sq. miles (0.007328 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.303155 sq. miles (5.965146 sq. km)
FIPS code: 78640
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 31.699286 N, 90.397081 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 39191
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Wesson may refer to, among other things:

  • Wesson, Mississippi, a town in Copiah County
  • Wesson, Texas, a ghost town in Cormal County
  • Wesson, Arkansas, a township in Union County, Arkansas
  • Wesson cooking oil, a brand now owned by ConAgra Foods, Inc.
  • USS Wesson (DE-184), a United States Navy destroyer escort

Notable people named Wesson include:

  • Daniel B. Wesson, co-inventor of the Winchester rifle and co-founder of Smith & Wesson
    • Daniel B. Wesson II, great-grandson of Daniel B. Wesson, founder Dan Wesson Firearms
  • Dick Wesson (announcer) (1919–1979), American film and television announcer
  • Dick Wesson (actor) (1919–1996), American character actor, comedian, comedy writer and producer
  • Edward Wesson, an English watercolour artist
  • Herb Wesson, former Speaker of the California State Assembly and current Los Angeles City Councilman
  • Jessica Wesson, American actress
  • Marcus Wesson, a convicted American mass murderer
  • Tina Wesson, the winner of the reality television program Survivor: The Australian Outback

Usage examples of "wesson".

That Stuart chose to walk and not ride gave Wesson, who disliked and distrusted borderers in general, a better opinion of him: Stuart, for his part, had meant to keep it a human matter.

Wesson M-4000 scattergun, with its full load of eight of the 12-gauge Remington flechettes.

Danny Fisher came skiting in, shied off from the man at the gate, and darted, distracted, along the palisade wall, looking for his horse, Wesson could guess, among the nighthorses that maintained an uneasy vigil at the den near the gate.

Wesson scattergun, carrying its lethal load of 12-gauge flechettes, the tiny inch-long darts that would star out and rip anyone within range to bloody tetters of skin and flesh.

The place which he had rented to serve as headquarters was guarded by a dozen trusted men organized by Dude Wesson and Si Bartlett themselves.

He held open his coat-he was left-handed-and adjusted the high-rine hip holster holding a Smith and Wesson .

Angered beyond speech, she was cinched quite interestingly up in a couple of thousand dollars worth of English latex, North Beach leather, and a pair of vintage Smith & Wesson handcuffs that someone had paid to have lovingly buffed and redone in black chrome-the gardener evidently having headed for the hills when he heard Rydell parking Gunhead in the living room.

Harry Dunne stood fifteen feet away, with his blue-steel Smith & Wesson .

Wesson automatic made out of balsa wood and kept it tucked in his belt at all times, the way he'd read the real FBI agents did.

Wesson, chambering a round, then dropped the magazine and snicked the slide again, catching the round as it spun from the ejection port, clearing the weapon.

Wesson was in the top drawer, and you tell him that Shaw has a nose full of Epsom salts and you tell him that I said you're a black person and not a nigger.

Wesson, finger tight on the trigger, but it would have been a waste of a valuable round to fire into the backs of the muties as they ran away.

His back aches and so does the knee he racked up kicking away a CS canister in Grant Park in 1968, and there is a sore spot high on the left side of his ribcage from the little Dan Wesson .

Knowing that Krysty's Smith & Wesson and Dean's Browning Hi-Power were trained on the so-called Incarnates from inside the building made him feel even better.

Degarmos arm shot straight out to one side and the heavy Smith and Wesson was torn out of his hand and thudded against the knotty pine wall behind him.