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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 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...
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 Flori...
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 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 prob...
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 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
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...
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 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 Ar...
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
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 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 th...
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 th...
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
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...