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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...
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)...
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 la...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Adams County, Mississippi. Official Website 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 pf the United States, ...
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 Br...
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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...
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.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Copiah County, Mississippi. Official Website 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, wa...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lawrence County, Mississippi.= Official Website =Formed December 22, 1814, the county was named for the naval hero James Lawrence. Adjacent Counties * Jefferson Davis County * Simpson County * Marion County * Copiah County * Lincoln County * Walthall County Towns & Communities *Arm*Jayness*Monticello (County Seat)
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
Brierfield Plantation Cemetery Le Tourneau, Warren County, Mississippi, USA Location: on the western side of Davis Island near the ruins of Hurricane Plantation, A road once connected the plantations on the island to the rest of Warren County, but a change in the Mississippi River in 1867 made Brierfield Cemetery and Hurricane Plantation inaccessible by land. Location about 4 miles west of ...
Warren County, Mississippi: Wikipedia
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 Panola County, Mississippi. Official Website Panola County was established February 9, 1836. Panola is the anglicization of ponolo, a word meaning thread in both old Choctaw and Chickasaw and cotton in modern Choctaw. Adjacent Counties Lafayette County Tate County Yalobusha County Tunica County Tallahatchie County Quit...
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...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Choctaw County, Mississippi. The county is named after the Choctaw tribe of Native Americans, who long occupied this territory as their homeland before being forced to move west of the Mississippi River by federal troops under the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Adjacent Counties Webster County Oktibbeha County Winston County A...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Harrison County, Mississippi. Official Website 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) Cue...
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 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, Tennessee Benton County Union County Shelby County, Tennessee DeSoto County Lafayette County Tate County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Kemper County, Mississippi. Official Website Land in the area was developed in the 19th century by white planters for cotton cultivation. Blacks have comprised the majority of the county population since before the American Civil War. After the American Civil War and Reconstruction, racial violence increased as whites struggled to...
The following cemetery list was sent in by Jim Shotts, Joyce Tucker, Bobbie Waters and Bonnie Evans. This cemetery was recorded by McRae Limerick in March 1985. It was also recorded by Bonnie Evans on Jul 15, 2003. Printed with permission of Mr. M. Limerick and Bonnie Evans. This cemetery is very difficult to find unless one already knows how: located in T10N, R16E, S19 of Kemper County, it ca...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Scott County, Mississippi. Official Website The county was created in 1833 and was named for Abram M. Scott, the Governor of Mississippi from 1832 to 1833. On October 23–25, 1898, a "race war" erupted in Harperville, an unincorporated community in Scott County, after blacks resisted one of their community being arrested for an alle...
The Battle of Champion Hill (aka The Battle of Champion's Hill) of May 16, 1863, was the pivotal battle in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War (1861–1865). Union Army commander Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Tennessee pursued the retreating Confederate States Army under Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton and defeated it twenty miles to the east of Vicksburg, Mississippi, le...
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,...