GOODMAN — At 102 years old, James Anderson has one piece of advice.

“All I know is love one another and be good to each other,” he said.

The centenarian was born in rural Sallis, in central Mississippi’s Attala County, on Sept. 18, 1923, the seventh of eight children. His father was a sharecropper, and he spent his childhood farming with his family and went to school part-time.

Anderson now lives in Goodman in Holmes County. One of his daughters, Dorothy Falls, is retired and takes care of him. His home is right next to his two-acre garden and a restaurant owned by his son Ricky, called Rick’s Drive Inn. Anderson still spends time in his garden.

In 1943, Anderson was sent to Fort Eustis in Virginia for training after being drafted to the Army during World War II.

He said he spent six

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