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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jones County, Mississippi. Official Website The county was created in 1826 and named after John Paul Jones, the early American Naval hero who rose from humble Scottish origin to military success during the American Revolution. The Free State of Jones During the American Civil War, Jones County and Covington County, to its west, ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi. Official Website The county was created on March 31, 1906 and was named after Mississippi Senator and Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Adjacent Counties Covington County Lamar County Simpson County Lawrence County Marion County Towns & Communities Bassfield Carson ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Mississippi. Official Website Founded in 1799, the county was named for U.S. President Thomas Jefferson. Adjacent Counties & Parishes Claiborne County Copiah County Lincoln County Franklin County Adams County Tensas Parish Cities, Towns & Communities Ashland Cannonsburg
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...
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 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 Cho...
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
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, Louisiana Lincoln County Pike County Towns & Communities Darbun Dexte...
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 Leflore County, Mississippi. Official Website The county was formed in 1871 and was named for Choctaw leader Greenwood LeFlore, who signed a treaty to cede his people's land to the United States in exchange for land in Indian Territory. Following the American Civil War, during Reconstruction the majority-black population of freedme...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Humphreys County, Mississippi. Official Website Humphreys County is located in the Mississippi Delta region. It is the newest county in Mississippi, formed in 1918, and is named for Benjamin G. Humphreys. Adjacent Counties Holmes County Leflore County Yazoo County Sharkey County Sunflower County Washington County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Holmes County, Mississippi. Official Website The county is named in honor of David Holmes, territorial governor and the first governor of the state of Mississippi and later United States Senator for Mississippi. The western border of the county is formed by the Yazoo River; it is next to the Mississippi Delta, and shares its charac...
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)...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Issaquena County, Mississippi. "Issaquena" (isi okhina) is a Choctaw word meaning "Deer River". The Choctaw people were the first inhabitants of the county, and were removed from their land in 1820. Non-Native settlers began arriving in the early 1830s. The county itself was established on January 23, 1844 Issaquena County is notabl...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Tunica County, Mississippi. Official Website 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, Arkansas DeSoto County Lee County, Arkansas Phillips County, Arkansas Coahoma County Quitman County
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 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 an...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lowndes County, Mississippi. Official Website This upland area was settled by European Americans who wanted to develop cotton plantations to produce what became the largest commodity crop in the state. In the period from 1877 to 1950, Lowndes County had 19 documented lynchings of blacks, the third highest in the state. Adjacent C...
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 hist...
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, Alabama Choctaw County, Alabama Clarke County New...
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, Alabama Marion County, Alabama Tishomingo County Lee County Monroe County Prentiss County...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Noxubee County, Mississippi. Official Website Established in 1833, the county's name is derived from the Choctaw word nakshobi meaning to stink. Adjacent Counties Lowndes County Pickens County, Alabama Oktibbeha County Kemper County Sumter County, Alabama Winston County Cities, Towns & Communities
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, Alabama Jasper County Jones County Perry County Greene C...
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
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Neshoba County, Mississippi.= Official Website =Neshoba was founded in 1833 and was named after a Choctaw chief, whose name in the Choctaw language meant "wolf".Descendants of the Choctaw who remained in the state after the Indian Removal in the 1830s continue to identify as Choctaw. They live in relatively distinct communities and re...