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The Crest was adopted in April 1989, at the 50th reunion of The Descendants of the Jersey Settlers. At the time, the Executive Vice-President of the Organization was the Principal of a school in Louisiana. She asked the art teacher of her school to produce the design.
At the top of the emblem is the date of the organization’s founding, with the name of the organization at the bottom. The scroll work is divided into four quadrants, centered by a small shield bearing a family tree, half in darkness and half in light, representing the dead and the living. In the upper left quadrant is a magnolia blossom, the State Tree of Mississippi. In the upper right quadrant is a church and in the lower left quadrant is a Christian Cross and a Holy Bible, symbols of the strong religious faith of the Founders. In the lower right quadrant are wheat shafts to represent the Settlers’ occupation as yeoman farmers.