Harmon Runnels

Harmon Runnels (c. 1753 – July 1839) was a planter and politician of Georgia and Mississippi in the United States. A soldier in the American Revolutionary War, he was also involved in battles with indigenous people "on the frontier," and the Indians apparently called him Bloody Shoe. Runnels lived in Georgia before moving to the vicinity of Pearl River in southern Mississippi. He founded the town of Monticello, and represented Laurence County, Mississippi at the state constitutional convention of 1817. He served multiple terms in the Georgia and Mississippi state legislatures.