Video: Hoyt Ming Country Music Trail Marker Unveiled

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Ackerman, Mississippi (WCBI) – A Country Music Trail marker was unveiled honoring a Choctaw County fiddler on Thursday.

The Hoyt Ming marker now stands in Ackerman’s Bruce Burney Park.

Ming was born in Choctaw County in 1902.

He, along with his wife and other relatives formed the string band “Floyd Ming and His Pep Steppers.” Their fist hit, “Indian War Whoop,” was in 1928.

The self taught, potato farmer and his wife stopped touring and then recorded another album in 1973.

Those who knew him shared some memories about Ming.

“Mr. Ming often would ask us to come over, and he and Mrs. Rozelle would play He would play the fiddle. She would play the mandolin,” recalled former neighbor Faye Arnold.
“They raised potatoes and everybody you talked to, anytime you mention Hoyt and his wife they talked about…you go by their house, down the road and they would be seating on the potato piles,” said Ming’s great nephew Dennis Ming.

Organizers say Mississippi’s Country Music Trail markers help visitors remember some of the state’s most accomplished musicians.

“This is just a way for economic growth and development. People come from all across the country, all over the world, come and look at these markers, and just to get the history of what we have and what we know of as the birthplace of America’s music,” said Mississippi Development Authority Music Trails Manager Allison Washington.

The Hoyt Ming marker is the 28th on the Mississippi Country Music Trail.