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The Gulf Coast Memorial Cemetery is between Longfellow Road and HWY 90 near Arnold Street, in Bay St. Louis, Hancock County, Mississippi. Find a Grave Hancock County Historical Society
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 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 ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Greene County, Mississippi. Official Website Established in 1811, the county was named for General Nathanael Greene of the American Revolutionary War. It was originally occupied by the Choctaw Tribe. Adjacent Counties Mobile County, Alabama Perry County Washington County, Alabama Wayne County George County Towns &...
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 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 Cou...
Warren County, Mississippi: Wikipedia
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...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in George County, Mississippi. Official Website George County was formed on March 16, 1910 and was named for James Z. George, US Senator from Mississippi. Adjacent Counties Greene County Jackson County Mobile County, Alabama Perry County Stone County Cities & Communities Agricola Basin Benndale Bexley Bu...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Newton County, Mississippi.Newton County was formed in 1836 and named after scientist Isaac Newton.The Battle of Newton's Station was fought in the county on April 24, 1863 during Grierson's Raid of the American Civil War.In February 1864, General William Tecumseh Sherman crossed the county, burning the county seat at Decatur and was ...
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 centu...
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 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
United States Senators from MississippiList of United States Senators from Mississippi (from U.S. Senate web site--no links) of United States Senators from Mississippi (with wikipedia links)
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Marion County, Mississippi.= Official Website =Marion County was founded in 1811 by South Carolinians John and William Lott. They named the county after Revolutionary War hero General Francis Marion. Adjacent Counties & Parishes * Jefferson Davis County * Lamar County * Pearl River County * Lawrence County * Walthall County * Washingt...
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 "Ri...
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 Smith County, Mississippi. Official Website Founded in 1833, Smith County, a small county on the edge of the Piney Woods region in south-central Mississippi, was named for Maj. David Smith, a hero of the American Revolution who later settled in Mississippi. Adjacent Counties Scott County Rankin County Simpson County Co...
The Baleine Brides were a group of 88 French women that were sent to French Louisiana (la Louisiane), arriving 8 Jan 1721 in Biloxi, the then capital of la Louisiane. These women purportedly volunteered to travel to la Louisiane to marry eligible bachelors who were settling the colony. They arrived on the French cargo ship Baleine , which is how they got their nickname. These women came from Ma...
DeSoto County, Mississippi, was formally established February 9, 1836. The original county lines included territory now part of Tate County, which was carved out in 1873. The county is named for Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto . Hernando de Soto, the first European explorer known to reach the Mississippi River. The county seat, Hernando, is also named in his honor. De Soto reportedly died in...
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...