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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pontotoc County, Mississippi. Official Website The county was created on February 9, 1836 from lands ceded to the United States under the Chickasaw Cession. Pontotoc is a Chickasaw word meaning "land of hanging grapes". The original Natchez Trace and the current-day Natchez Trace Parkway both pass through the southeast corner of th...
There were three organizations known as the Army of Mississippi in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. (This name is contrasted against Army of the Mississippi , which was a Union Army named for the Mississippi River, not the state of Mississippi.) Army of Mississippi (March 1862) This army, at times known by the names Army of the West or Army of the Mississippi (the l...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Calhoun County, Mississippi. The county is named after John C. Calhoun, the U.S. Vice President and U.S. Senator from South Carolina. Adjacent Counties Lafayette County Pontotoc County Chickasaw County Webster County Grenada County Yalobusha County Towns, Villages & Communities Banner Bently
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Yazoo County, Mississippi. Official Website The area which is now Yazoo County was acquired by the State of Mississippi from the Choctaw Indians in 1820. Yazoo County was established on January 21, 1823. It is named for the Yazoo River, which forms its western border. Its name is said to come from a Choctaw language word meaning "R...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hinds County, Mississippi.= Official Website =The county is named for General Thomas Hinds, a hero of the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. Adjacent Counties * Copiah County * Claiborne County * Warren County * Madison County * Rankin County * Yazoo County Cities, Towns & Communities *Bolton*Brownsville
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Rankin County, Mississippi. Official Website Founded in 1828, the county is named in honor of Christopher Rankin, a Mississippi Congressman who served from 1819 to 1826. Adjacent Counties Madison County Scott County Hinds County Smith County Simpson County Cities, Towns & Communities Anse | Brandon (County Seat...
The cemetery is located on Blackmur Drive, Water Valley, Yalobusha County, Mississippi. Find a Grave
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 a...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in the city of Jackson, Mississippi.= Official Website = History The region that is now the city of Jackson was historically part of the large territory occupied by the Choctaw Nation, the historic culture of the Muskogean-speaking indigenous peoples who had inhabited the area for thousands of years before European colonization. The Choc...
This project is part of the State of Mississippi Portal. ==About the Project=Please use this project to add, research, document, and discuss your ancestors from Mississippi. You can add profiles for:* People born in Mississippi* People who lived in Mississippi* People who died in MississippiWhen you find helpful resources for research, please share them here so that others can benefit.If you ha...
This project is about the Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4, 1863) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. In a series of maneuvers, Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate Army of Vicksburg led by Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton into the ...
Wikipedia =Mississippi during the Southern War for Independence.See these related projects as well for other details:==Battles== Battle of Brice's Cross Roads, Baldwyn, Mississippi (June 10, 1864)
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bolivar County, Mississippi. The county is named in honor of Simón Bolívar , early 19th-century leader of the liberation of several South American colonies from Spain. It is located in the Mississippi Delta, or Yazoo Basin, of Mississippi, that was first Choctaw land. This area was first developed for cotton plantations. In 1840, th...
Wikipedia The University of Mississippi (colloquially known as Ole Miss) is a public, coeducational research university in Oxford, Mississippi, United States. Founded in 1848, the school is composed of the main campus in Oxford, four branch campuses located in Booneville, Grenada, Tupelo, and Southaven, as well as the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. It also operates the U...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Carroll County, Mississippi. History This area was developed by European Americans for cotton plantations near the rivers. These were dependent on the labor of large gangs of slaves. After the American Civil War, many freedmen worked as sharecroppers or tenant farmers on the plantations. Other areas were harvested for timber.The count...
Come build their trees from the roots up, because like the man says .... "The blues are the roots; everything else is the fruits." - Willie Dixon Blues Hall of Fame inductees: Wikipedia Hall of Fame Inductees Musician Biographies from the PBS Series, The Blues Luther Allison Duane Allman Jeff Beck Elvin Bishop Mike Bloomfield Joe Bonamassa David Bromberg Big Bill ...
This project is for those that were born,lived, and died in Harrison County, Mississippi. Official Website In 1699 French colonists formed the first, permanent, European settlement in French Louisiana, at Fort Maurepas, now in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, and referred to as "Old Biloxi". They were under the direction of Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville. La Louisiane was separated from Spanish Flor...
The City of Biloxi has a city-maintained cemetery that stretches from U.S. 90 on the southern end to the north of the CSX railway off Irish Hill, east of White Avenue. It is located west of the former site of Fort Louis, which indicates it may have been the burial place for early French settlers. The oldest existing tombstone is French-inscribed and bears an 1811 death date. The cemetery featur...
Wikipedia Jackson State University (Jackson State or JSU) is a historically Black college and university ("HBCU") in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. It was founded during the Reconstruction era in 1877 in Natchez, Mississippi as Natchez Seminary by the American Baptist Home Mission Society of New York City. The Society moved the school to the capital, Jackson, in 1882, renaming it Jackson ...
This project is for those buried in Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery, Seminary, Covington County, Mississippi. Find a Grave Genealogy Trails
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jackson County, Mississippi.= Official Website =The county was formed in 1812 and named for Andrew Jackson, general in the United States Army and afterward President of the United States. The county was severely damaged by both Hurricane Camille in August 1969 and Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005, which caused catastrophic effects...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Itawamba County, Mississippi.Founded in 1836 from the Mississippi Chickasaw Cession, the county was named for the Chickasaw leader Itawamba, known to English-speaking settlers as Levi Colbert. Adjacent Counties * Franklin County, Ala. * Marion County, Ala. * Tishomingo County * Lee County * Monroe County * Prentiss County Cities, Town...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Benton County, Mississippi. It is locally believed that residents convinced the post-Civil War Reconstruction government that Benton County was named after U.S. Senator Thomas Hart Benton , but the name actually honored Confederate Brigadier General Samuel Benton of nearby Holly Springs in Marshall County . Adjacent Counties M...
The siege of Corinth (also known as the first Battle of Corinth) was an American Civil War engagement lasting from April 29 to May 30, 1862, in Corinth, Mississippi. A collection of Union forces under the overall command of Major General Henry Halleck engaged in a month-long siege of the city, whose Confederate occupants were commanded by General P.G.T. Beauregard. The siege resulted in the cap...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived, or died in Lee County, Mississippi.Lee County was established on October 26, 1866, and named for General Robert E. Lee, General in Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States. Tupelo was the birthplace of Rock & Roll singer, Elvis Presley. The Battle of Brice's Cross Roads & The Battle of Tupelo The Battle of Brice's Cross Roads, also known a...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Tippah County, Mississippi. Official Website The county was founded in 1836. The name "Tippah" is derived from a Chickasaw language word meaning "cut off." It was taken from the creek of the same name that flows across much of the original county from northeast to southwest before emptying into the Tallahatchie River. The creek pro...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Perry County, Mississippi. The county was established in 1820 and was named after the War of 1812 naval hero, Oliver Hazard Perry. Adjacent Counties Greene County Wayne County George County Stone County Forrest County Jones County Towns & Communities Beaumont Corinth Good Hope Hintonville Janice Ma...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lafayette County, Mississippi.= Official Website =Established in 1836, Lafayette County was named in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette , the Frenchman who had heroically befriended the new American Republic. It was one of ten counties into which the Chickasaw Cession was divided.The Ole Miss riot of 1962, or Battle of Oxford, was an i...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Union County, Mississippi. According to most sources, the county received its name by being a union of pieces of several large counties. However, other sources say that the name was meant to mark the re-union of Mississippi and the other Confederate states after the Civil War (at the time, the state had a Republican government under ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Copiah County, Mississippi. History Copiah, from a Choctaw Indian word meaning calling panther, was organized in 1823 as Mississippi's 18th county. In the year of county organization, Walter Leake served as governor and James Monroe as President of the United States. In 2004 Calling Panther Lake, commemorating this name, was opened up...
The Second Battle of Corinth,October 3–4, 1862:
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Alcorn County, Mississippi. Official Website Alcorn County was formed in 1870 and is named for James L. Alcorn , Mississippi 's twenty-eighth governor.. It was the site of the Siege of Corinth , an early campaign in the American Civil War . Adjacent Counties Tippah County Tishomingo County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lauderdale County, Mississippi.= Official Website =The county was created December 23, 1833 from the Choctaw Cession. It was named for Colonel James Lauderdale, who was killed at the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812. Adjacent Counties * Kemper County * Sumter County, Ala. * Choctaw County, Ala. * Clarke County * Newton County ...
The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, also called the Battle of Walnut Hills , fought December 26–29, 1862, was the opening engagement of the Vicksburg Campaign during the American Civil War . Confederate forces under Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton repulsed an advance by Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman that was intended to lead to the capture of Vicksburg, Mississippi . On December 26, three Union div...
The Battle of Snyder's Bluff, or Snyder's Mill, was fought from April 29 to May 1, 1863, during the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War . Union forces under Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman conducted a feint against Confederate units holding the bluff, which was easily repelled. To ensure that troops were not withdrawn to Grand Gulf to assist Confederates there, a combined Union Army – Na...
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The Battle of Brice's Cross Roads, also known as the Battle of Tishomingo Creek or the Battle of Guntown , was fought on Friday, June 10, 1864, near Baldwyn, Mississippi, then part of the Confederate States of America . A Federal expedition from Memphis, Tennessee , of 4,800 infantry and 3,300 cavalry, under the command of Brig. Gen. Samuel D. Sturgis , was defeated by a Confederate force of 3,...
The Battle of Tupelo , also known as the Engagement at Harrisburg , was a battle of the American Civil War fought from July 14 to 15, 1864, near Tupelo, Mississippi. The Union victory over Confederate forces in northeast Mississippi ensured the safety of Sherman 's supply lines during the Atlanta Campaign . On the morning of the 14th, Smith took a strong position at Harrisburg and entrenched. ...
The Battle of Grand Gulf was fought on April 29, 1863, during the American Civil War . As part of Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant 's Vicksburg campaign, seven Union Navy ironclad warships commanded by Adm. David Dixon Porter bombarded Confederate fortifications at Grand Gulf, Mississippi . One of the Confederate fortifications, named Fort Wade, was silenced, but the other, named Fort Cobun, continue...
The Battle of Iuka was fought on September 19, 1862, in Iuka, Mississippi , during the American Civil War . In the opening battle of the Iuka-Corinth Campaign, Union Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans stopped the advance of the Confederate Army of the West commanded by Maj. Gen. Sterling Price . Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant brought two armies to confront Price in a double envelopment: Rosecrans's Army...
The Battle of Jackson was fought on May 14, 1863, in Jackson, Mississippi , as part of the Vicksburg campaign during the American Civil War . After entering the state of Mississippi in late April 1863, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant of the Union Army moved his force inland to strike at the strategic Mississippi River town of Vicksburg, Mississippi . The Battle of Raymond, which was fought on May 12...
The Battle of Booneville was fought on July 1, 1862, in Booneville, Mississippi, during the American Civil War. It occurred in the aftermath of the Union victory at the Battle of Shiloh and within the context of Confederate General Braxton Bragg's efforts to recapture the rail junction at Corinth, Mississippi, twenty miles north of Booneville. After the Union Army victory at Shiloh, the Union ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Tate County, Mississippi. Official Website Organized in 1873 during the Reconstruction era and is named for Thomas Simpson Tate, one of the first prominent American settlers of the area. Adjacent Counties DeSoto County Marshall County Lafayette County Panola County Tunica County Cities, Towns & Communities A...
The cemetery is located on the corner of Pine Island Road (Now MLK Drive). at Hwy 63 Moss Point, Jackson County, Mississippi. Find a Grave Billion Graves
Place projects are projects on Geni that are focused of a specific geographical place or region. Places profiles are also the precursor to the upcoming Place Profiles feature.=Place project portals= Includes countries and kingdoms, and other top level place project. ==Geographical==* Australia * Canada * Europe** Al-Andalus ** Austro-Hungarian-Empire ** Belarus ** Czech Republic-Bohemia ** Croa...
Army of the Mississippi was the name given to two Union armies that operated around the Mississippi River, both with short existences, during the American Civil War. The Confederate Army of Mississippi was named after the state, while the Union Army of the Mississippi was named after the Mississippi River.==History=====1862===The first army was created on February 23, 1862, with Maj. Gen. John ...
Please add profiles of people who were born, lived or died in Franklin County, Mississippi. Overview The county was formed on December 21, 1809 and named for Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. This was the fourth county organized in Mississippi. It was initially developed for agriculture, specifically cotton plantations. Cotton continued to be important to the economy through the 19th century a...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Attala County, Mississippi . Official Website Attala County is named for Atala, a fictional Native American heroine from an early-19th-century novel of the same name by François-René de Chateaubriand . Adjacent Counties Montgomery County Choctaw County Winston County Leake County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Amite County, Mississippi. Official Website History Amite County was established in February 1809 from the eastern portion of Wilkinson County and was named for the Amite River, which was in turn named for the friendly (French: amitiés) Houma Indians encountered by French explorers in the region. At this time, the population of ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Tishomingo County, Mississippi. Official Website Tishomingo County was organized February 9, 1836, from Chickasaw lands that were ceded to the United States. The Chickasaw were forced by Indian Removal to relocate to lands in the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). Jacinto was the original county seat of Tishomingo County and its his...
Wikipedia The University of Southern Mississippi, known informally as Southern Miss, is a public research university located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. It is situated 70 miles north of Gulfport, Mississippi and 105 miles northeast of New Orleans, Louisiana. Southern Miss is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) to award baccalaur...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wilkinson County, Mississippi. Official Website History Located in Mississippi's southwestern corner, on the Louisiana border, Wilkinson County was one of the state's original counties, formed in 1802 and named for Revolutionary War general James Wilkinson, the first governor of the Louisiana Territory. After Indian Removal in ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Grenada County, Mississippi.The county was named for the province of Granada in southern Spain but spelled inaccurately. Its western half is part of the Mississippi Delta. Cotton cultivation was important to its economy well into the 20th century. Adjacent Counties * Calhoun County * Webster County * Yalobusha County * Carroll County ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Adams County, Mississippi. Official Website Overview Adams County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi . As of the 2010 census, the population was 32,297. The county seat is Natchez. The county is the first to have been organized in the former Mississippi Territory. It is named for the second President of the Un...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Marshall County, Mississippi.= Official Website =Founded in 1836, Marshall County borders Tennessee and was named for Supreme Court justice John Marshall Adjacent Counties * Fayette County, Tenn. * Benton County * Union County * Shelby County, Tenn. * DeSoto County * Lafayette County * Tate County
Go North out of Sanford, in Covington County, on Old Hwy 49 for .7 miles, turn on Cascio Taormina Rd. The cemetery is on top of the hill on the left after you cross the railroad tracks. Find a Grave Genealogy Trails MS GenWeb
This project is for those buried in Lumberton City Cemetery, Lumberton, Lamar County, Mississippi. Find a Grave
This project is for those buried in Pachuta Cemetery, Pachuta, Clarke County, Mississippi. Find a Grave
This project is for those buried in Old Phalti Cemetery, Paulding, Jasper County, Mississippi. Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Harrison County, Mississippi.The county is named after U.S. President William Henry Harrison and was extensively damaged from both Hurricane Camille in 1969 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Adjacent Counties * Hancock County * Jackson County * Stone County Cities & Communities * Biloxi (County Seat)*Cuevas*D'Iberville*DeLisle*Gulfport (...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jasper County, Mississippi.= Official Website =Jasper County was formed in 1833 and was named for Sgt. William Jasper who distinguished himself in the defense of Fort Moultrie in 1776 during the American Revolutionary War.During the antebellum years, cotton was cultivated with slave labor on large plantations in the county. This was t...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Forrest County, Mississippi.= Official Website =The county was created in 1908 and named in honor of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general in the American Civil War. Adjacent Counties * Covington County * Jones County * Lamar County * Perry County * Stone County * Pearl River County Cities & Communities
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Monroe County, Mississippi.= Official Website =Monroe County was founded in 1821 and was named in honor of James Monroe, fifth President of the United States. Adjacent Counties * Lowndes County * Clay County * Chickasaw County * Lee County * Itawamba County * Marion County, Ala. * Lamar County, Ala.
This project is for those buried in Bruce Cemetery, Bruce, Calhoun County, Mississippi. Find a Grave Genealogy Trails
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Winston County, Mississippi. The county is one of sixteen formed when chief Greenwood LeFlore ceded the lands in the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, which resulted in the removal of the Choctaw Nation from their ancestral lands to Oklahoma. The county is named for Louis Winston (1784–1824), a colonel in the militia, a prominent lawy...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Simpson County, Mississippi. The county was established in 1824 and was named for judge Josiah Simpson. Adjacent Counties Rankin County Smith County Covington County Jefferson Davis County Lawrence County Copiah County Cities, Towns, Villages & Communities Braxton D'Lo Harrisville Magee Mendenhall ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hancock County, Mississippi.= Official Website = Overview This area of Mississippi was inhabited by indigenous peoples at the time of European colonization; the French were the first settlers and traders in the area. They imported African slaves as laborers, and in time a Creole class of free people of color developed.After the United...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Webster County, Mississippi. Webster County was formed in 1874, during the Reconstruction era in honor of Daniel Webster. Its southern border is formed by the Big Black River, a tributary of the Mississippi River. Adjacent Counties Calhoun County Chickasaw County Clay County Oktibbeha County Choctaw County Montgomery...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wayne County, Mississippi. One of Mississippi's first counties, Wayne County was founded in 1809 and was named for US Army general Anthony Wayne. It is located along the Alabama border in southeastern Mississippi. Adjacent Counties Clarke County Choctaw County, Ala. Jasper County Jones County Perry County Greene Coun...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Madison County, Mississippi.= Official Website =The county was created in 1828 and was named for U.S. President James Madison . Adjacent Counties * Attala County * Leake County * Scott County * Hinds County * Rankin County * Yazoo County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Washington County, Mississippi. Official Website The county was established in 1827 and is named in honor of the first President of the United States, George Washington. It is located to the Arkansas border. Adjacent Counties Bolivar County Sunflower County Humphreys County Sharkey County Issaquena County Chicot Co...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Walthall County, Mississippi. Official Website The county was created in 1910 and was named after Civil War Confederate general and Mississippi Senator Edward C. Walthall. Adjacent Counties Lawrence County Marion County Washington Parish, Lou. Lincoln County Pike County Towns & Communities Darbun Dexter ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pearl River County, Mississippi. Official Website Pearl River County was originally formed as Pearl County in 1872. Because of low population density and a small tax base, Pearl County dissolved in 1878. Present-day Pearl River County was organized in 1890 by an act of the Mississippi Legislature utilizing the same land area as its...
Wikipedia The 116.28-acre Vicksburg National Cemetery, is within the park. It has 18,244 interments (12,954 unidentified). Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pike County, Mississippi. Official Website Pike County was formed by an act of the Territorial General Assembly on December 9, 1815. It was named for explorer Zebulon Pike. Adjacent Counties & Parishes Lincoln County Walthall County Amite County Tangipahoa Parish Washington Parish Cities, Towns & Communities ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Covington County, Mississippi.= Official Website =Covington County was established on January 5, 1819. The county was one of the first counties established out of the vast non-agricultural lands in the more eastern part of the state. Covington was originally cut out of Lawrence and Wayne Counties, and encompassed what is now Jefferson...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Montgomery County, Mississippi.= Official Website =The county was founded in 1871. It is said to be named in honor either of Richard Montgomery, an American Revolutionary War general killed in 1775 while attempting to capture Quebec City, Canada, or for Montgomery County, Tennessee, from which an early settler came. In the latter case...
This project is for those buried in Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery, Aberdeen, Monroe County, Mississippi. Notable Interments Frederick George Barry (1845-1909) - US Congress Gen. Reuben Easton Davis (1813-1890) - CSA, US Congress Bvt. Brig. Gen. Samuel Jameson Gholson (1808-1883) - CSA, US Congress Brig. Gen. John Gregg (1828-1864) - CSA, Confederate Congress Jesse Speight (1795-1847)...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Tunica County, Mississippi. The county was established in 1836 and named for the Tunica Indians, most of which migrated to Louisiana during the colonial period. Adjacent Counties Crittenden County, Ark. DeSoto County Lee County, Ark. Phillips County, Ark. Coahoma County Quitman County Panola County
Wikipedia Tougaloo College is a private, co-educational, historically black, liberal arts institution of higher education founded in 1869, in Madison County, north of Jackson, Mississippi, United States. Originally established by New York–based Christian missionaries for the education of freed slaves and their offspring, from 1871 until 1892 the college served as a teachers' training school fu...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sunflower County, Mississippi. Official Website Sunflower County was created in 1844 and was named for the Sunflower River, which flows through it. Adjacent Counties Coahoma County Tallahatchie County Bolivar County Washington County Humphreys County Leflore County Cities, Towns & Communities
Wikipedia Biloxi National Cemetery is a U.S. National Cemetery that is located in Biloxi, Mississippi on the grounds of the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC), near Keesler Air Force Base. Find a Grave
Please add those who were born, lived or died in Prentiss County, Mississippi. Official Website Created in 1870, the county is named for Seargent Smith Prentiss, a noted speaker and US Congressman from Natchez. (Seargent was his first name, not a military title.) Adjacent Counties Alcorn County Tishomingo County Tippah County Itawamba County Lee County Union County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. The county was founded on December 31, 1833, after most of the Choctaw Nation was forced out under Indian Removal. Tallahatchie is a Choctaw name meaning "rock river". Adjacent Counties Quitman County Panola County Yalobusha County Coahoma County Sunflower County Leflore County Gre...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi.= Official Website = History The name Oktibbeha is a Native American word meaning either "bloody water" (because of a battle fought on the banks) or possibly "icy creek". Indian artifacts more than 2,000 years old have been found near ancient earthwork mounds located just east of Starkville, showing the a...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lincoln County, Mississippi.= Official Website =The county was created by the legislature on April 7, 1870 and was named for Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States. Adjacent Counties * Copiah County * Lawrence County * Walthall County * Jefferson County * Franklin County * Amite County * Pike County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Stone County, Mississippi. Official Website Stone County was formed on June 5, 1916. It was named for John M. Stone, who served as Governor of Mississippi from 1876 to 1882 and again from 1890 to 1896. Adjacent County Perry County George County Jackson County Harrison County Forrest County Pearl River County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Clay County, Mississippi.= Official Website =Its name is in honor of American statesman Henry Clay, member of the United States Senate from Kentucky and United States Secretary of State in the 19th century. Adjacent Counties * Chickasaw County * Monroe County * Lowndes County * Oktibbeha County * Webster County Cities & Communities *C...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Claiborne County, Mississippi. History The county had been settled by French, Spanish, and English colonists, and American pioneers as part of the Natchez District; organized in 1802, it was the fourth county in the Mississippi Territory. European-American settlers did not develop the area for cotton plantations until after Indian Rem...
Wikipedia =Mississippi College is a Christian university located in Clinton, Mississippi, just west of the capital city of Jackson. Founded in 1826, MC is the second-oldest Baptist-affiliated college in the United States and the oldest college in Mississippi. With more than 5,000 students, Mississippi College is the largest private university in the state. Notable Alumni
Wikipedia =The Mississippi State University of Agriculture and Applied Science, commonly known as Mississippi State University (MSU), is a land-grant university located in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, United States, partially in the town of Starkville and mostly in an unincorporated area. Mississippi State, Mississippi is the official designation for the area that encompasses the university.I...
Wikipedia =Mississippi Valley State University (commonly referred to as MVSU, The Valley or Valley) is a public, historically black university located in Mississippi Valley State, Leflore County, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta, near Itta Bena. MVSU is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. Notable Alumni
Alcorn State University (Alcorn State, ASU or Alcorn) is a public historically black land-grant university in Lorman, Mississippi. It was founded in 1871 and was the first Black land grant college established in the United States.One of Alcorn's most notable alumni, Medgar Evers, a civil rights activist, graduated in 1952. Students at the college were part of the mid-twentieth century Civil Rig...
Wikipedia =Belhaven University ("Belhaven" or "BU") is a private Christian liberal arts university located in Jackson, Mississippi. Founded by Lewis Fitzhugh and later donated to the Presbyterian Church in the United States, the school has been independently run by a Board of Trustees since 1972. Belhaven is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award Associate, Bacc...
Wikipedia =Blue Mountain College (BMC) is a private liberal arts college, supported by the Mississippi Baptist Convention, located in the northeastern Mississippi town of Blue Mountain not far from Tupelo, Miss. In 2005, the College's Board of Trustees voted unanimously for the college to go fully co-educational.The college was founded in 1873 by Confederate General Mark Perrin Lowrey, a pastor...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Noxubee County, Mississippi.Established in 1833, the county's name is derived from the Choctaw word nakshobi meaning to stink. Adjacent Counties * Lowndes County * Pickens County, Ala. * Oktibbeha County * Kemper County * Sumter County, Ala. * Winston County Cities, Towns & Communities *Bigbee Valley*Brooksville*Gholson*Macon (County ...