[GtrsRGr8]

Not to disparage Mississippi (I lived there a couple of times, and think that it gets a bad rap. There is lots of nice scenery, lots of wide open spaces, the people are as good as anywhere, as smart as anywhere, etc.), but it is hard to imagine someone in that time and that place in Mississippi, as it would be in many other places of that era, knowing enough about general Kosciusko that he would think of naming the settlement that grew up there that name.

The only reasons that I can imagine are that:
1. The settlement grew up at about the same time that Kosciusko was engaging in his exploits. Kosciusko's name was "fresh" on people's minds, then.
2. The people had a better classical, fundamental education then in the schools, despite the standards of the physical facilities of the schools not being anywhere close to ours (e.g., the plethora of one-room schoolhouses).