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Pontotoc County, Mississippi Genealogy & History
Pamela J. Gibbs, County Coordinator Peggy A. Young, Assistant County Coordinator
Everette Carr - State Coordinator |
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Home Page and Site Index The Pontotoc County GenWeb site has moved! Please visit us at http://www.pontotoc.msgenweb.org Be sure to change your bookmark because this page will be removed very soon. |
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NEW Welcome aboard to Peggy A. Young, our new Assistant Coordinator for Pontotoc County GenWeb. Peggy has been contributing to this site for a long time and we are lucky to have her. Her e-mail address is posted at the top of each page, along with mine. Please let either one of us know if we can help you! John E. Hudson Civil War Letters 02/09/2008 Algoma School Pictures: Girls Basketball 1957, Girls Basketball 1958, Class of 1958, Algoma Girls, Boy Scouts, Second Graders, Senior Trip 1958 03/15/2008 Rosamba School: Can you identify this picture? 03/15/2008 Unknown Toccopola Family: Can you identify this family? Possible surnames Evans, New, Gray, Nelson, Williams 03/15/2008 Old Poplar Springs Cemetery transcription submitted by Uvalda Holman
BULLETIN BOARD: The 2008 Sherman School Reunion will be held on Saturday, April 26th. The reunion will begin at 10:30 AM in the conference room of the Sherman Library. The library is located in the old grammar school building. Please help spread the word about the reunion by contacting friends and former classmates that attended school in Sherman........you did not have to graduate to attend the reunion. Lunch is "pot luck", so bring your favorite dish....drinks and paper products will be furnished.
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SEARCH THIS SITE The archives, files on other websites, and the Jennie Bell Stephens Smith Confederate Rosters are not indexed by the search engine. Use the "find on this page" feature of your browser for the archives files. Since the rosters are images you will have to look at each page. |
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LINKS TO NEIGHBORING COUNTIES:
Calhoun
Formation of Mississippi Counties
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PLANNING TO VISIT?
E-mail the Chamber of Commerce
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ARCHIVES Archives at Pontotoc County Genweb World War I Draft Registrations BIBLE RECORDS Albritton and Franklin Family Bible Gillespie Family Bible Records Lucinda Pinson Hill Family Bible BIOGRAPHIES Daniel Coleman, Father of Annie Coleman Castleberry Daniel Thomas Coleman and Some of His Ancestors Robert Cooper, Soldier of the American James Hemphill, Soldier of the American Revolution Autobiography of William Jolly John Porter and Martha Ann Miears BOOKS AND LOOKUPS CEMETERY LOCATIONS
If you have contact information regarding the care and maintenance of ANY Pontotoc County Cemetery please send it to me so I can post it here. People frequently write to me asking who to contact and most are prepared to pay for maintenance services for their loved one's grave. I have no information at this time. CEMETERY TRANSCRIPTIONS Johnson Cemetery (photographs and transcription) Old Poplar Springs updated
*How to
Transcribe A Cemetery Cemetery Records in the State Archives You can check here to see whether there is a published record of a cemetery at the State Archives in Jackson. CEMETERY PHOTOGRAPHS Grave Markers of John and Josie Odle Grave Marker of Minnie Coleman Odle Grave Marker of John Porter and Martha Miears CENSUS RECORDS Sign Up to Transcribe a Census 1850 Census in the Pontotoc County Archives 1860 Slave Schedule very large file 1880 CENSUS AT FAMILY SEARCH LDS SITE Censustools.com free electronic templates!
CHURCHES
Smyrna Primitive Baptist Church
*Churches of Mississippi This site is worth visiting. Churches are listed by county and communities. CIVIL WAR Transcribed by Jennie Belle Stephens Smith and donated by Martha Stephens Cofield. This is NOT indexed by the search engine, so you will need to browse until I finish the page headers.
Civil War Exhibit At The Pontotoc Library
The Civil War in Pontotoc County Biographies Co. G, 2nd MS Infantry Captain Smith's Co. 43rd MS Infantry Muster Roll Pontotoc Minute Men Muster Roll of Privates,1859-1864 record of the Pontotoc County Militia Index to Amnesty Oath Register Valentine Orr Civil War Record *Jim Martin's Mississippi in the Civil War COMMUNITIES CONTACT OTHER RESEARCHERS Roll Call of Surnames and Researchers Subscribe to the Mailing list: put the word subscribe in the message body *Mailing List Archive at Rootsweb
*Pontotoc County Query Board at GenForum COUNTY OFFICES CHANCERY CLERK (Divorce, wills, land records)
CIRCUIT CLERK (Marriage records) DEEDS Jamison - Brame Deed 2 December 1858 HISTORIC TOUR OF PONTOTOC COUNTY A list and description of points of interest from PONTOTOC COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY HOMEPAGES WITH PONTOTOC COUNTY ROOTS If you have a website with Pontotoc County Roots send me the link and I will post it here.
Caldwell Family
*Hunting Those Stewarts
by Peggy Young John Thomas Lambert, Mary Ann Cole, and their twenty one children. *Bramblett-Bramlett Information Center Almost endless variety of information about the Bramlett family in America with many Pontotoc County connections. Mathews, Lambert, Cole and Davis Families *Descendants of James Logan Colbert Kerry Armstrong's site about the well known Colbert family of the Chickasaw tribe. The Beckley Family of Pontotoc County by Melvin Collier The Descendants of the Beckley Five LETTERS TO, FROM, ABOUT PONTOTOC COUNTIANS Annie Thomason Weatherall Letter Spencer Wilder to Washington Wilder 1852 John E. Hudson Civil War Letters*
*Dixie Regional Library System
Branch Librarian: Regina Graham
** A special thanks to Peggy Young for her help and contributions to this site, and for being my eyes and ears in Pontotoc!**
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MAPS *Mississippi Maps at SEGenealogy.com *Mississippi County Formation Maps 1785--1918 * Mississippi Census Maps 1800 - 1920
MARRIAGES Marriages from the Old Query System by Groom: A-G H-Z Marriages by Deb Anderson and Barb Cerveny Linda (Henderson) Power's Marriage Records MISCELLANEOUS LINKS *National World War II Memorial The memorial will be dedicated on Saturday, May 29, 2004. This site includes a searchable registry and you may submit the names of those who served for inclusion in the registry. *Mississippi Department of Archives and History *Mississippi Public Health Statistics Order birth, death, marriage certificates from the state vital records bureau *National Archives and Records Administration Search electronic records online or search the catalog . This site has been greatly improved! *Beauvoir Confederate Veterans Home Confederate soldiers and their wives who lived at and or were buried at Beauvoir. MISSISSIPPI GENWEB RESOURCES *MSGenWeb Home Page and County list NATIVE AMERICANS *Chickasaw Historical Research Page *The James Logan Colbert Descendants *Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians NEWSPAPERS THE PONTOTOC PROGRESS 19 South Liberty OBITUARIES Obituaries From The Pontotoc Progress A B C D E F G H I J K L M Mc N O P R S T W XYZ *Link to Obituaries in the Tupelo Daily Journal PHOTOGRAPHS Pontotoc County Courthouse 1840 - 1918 Pontotoc County Courthouse 1918 - present
Bost Jernigan Robert Samuel HODGES Sr. and Nancy E. Aunt Puss WOOD Luther Mize and Fletcher Ann Powell Mize Little Joe Owen and the Revenooers
Pittman Hemphill Family Photographs Unknown Photographs from the Photo Album of
POSTCARDS QUERIES
*Pontotoc County
Query Board at GenForum OLD QUERY ARCHIVE SURNAMES: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
SCHOOLS List of Schools in Pontotoc County Algoma School 1894, 1910, 1948 Algoma School 1948 Miscellaneous Algoma Class of 1948 Yearbook Dedication Algoma Class of 1953 in Seventh Grade Algoma Class of 1955 in First Grade Algoma Class of 1959 at 1995 Reunion Algoma Class of 1961 in 5th and 6th grade Algoma Class of 1961 in Seventh Grade Algoma Class of 1961 at Pickwick Hurricane School History and Photographs
Hurricane School
Building and History WPA HISTORY OF PONTOTOC COUNTY Chapter I References and Bibliography Chapter II: TOPOGRAPHY Chapter III: SOILS AND MINERALS Chapter IV: FLORA Chapter V: INDIANS Tribes; Customs and Characteristics Distinguished Pontotoc Indians Chapter VI: ANTEBELLUM DAYS
This completes the first 182 pages of the history, which is several hundred pages long. If you have access to a paper or microfilm copy and are willing to make copies to send to me for transcribing, please contact me, PAM GIBBS, pamsgenealogy@bellsouth.net
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