Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Yalobusha County, Mississippi.

Official Website

The county was created in 1833. Yalobusha is a Native American word, likely from the Muskogee language family, meaning "tadpole place." This region was long a traditional homeland of bands of both the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian tribes, who occupied lands in present-day Mississippi and Alabama.

On 5 December 1862, the minor Battle of Coffeeville was fought. A Confederate force ambushed a larger Federal cavalry column. The Union forces fell back to Water Valley. Fewer than fifty men in total died in the skirmish.

Adjacent Counties

• Lafayette County
• Calhoun County
• Grenada County
• Tallahatchie County
• Panola County

Cities, Towns & Communities

• Coffeeville (County Seat)
• Hendersonville
• Leggo
• Oakland
• Scobey
• Tillatoba
• Water Valley (County Seat)

Links

Wikipedia

MS Genealogy & History Network

Genealogy Trails

RAOGK

MS Gen Web

MS Civil Rights Project

USGW Archives

List of Slave Surname Matches & Slaveholders - 1860 & 1870 Census