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ISSAQUENA  

MISSISSIPPI!

 

 

 

 

Picture of Issaquena Court House

Picture furnished by Jackie Rhodes

 

 

My name is Kathy Murray and I am the host at this time for Issaquena County.  I need any information you can provide for the county to update this web site and make it better if there is something you would like to see here please let me know. If you have any resources and are willing to do look-ups, please e-mail me.  I would like to Thank Ginny English for all of her help in getting these pretty graphics up on this  page for us to view. She did a real good job.

If you are interested in hosting  a county, just contact the State Coordinator Lori Thornton or Assistant State Coordinator Deb Haines. She is the MS USGenWeb coordinator for ALL of the 82 counties of Mississippi!. 

This is one of the central river counties of Mississippi and was established January 23, 1844, during the first administration of Gov. Albert G. Brown.  Its name is derived from a combination of two Indian words: issa, meaning deer, and okhina, the poetic name of river (water road).  Its territory was formerly embraced within the limits of Washington County, but on March 29, 1876, together with Washington, it contributed to form Sharkey County. 

Issaquena constitutes one of the later subdivisions of the New Purchase, acquired from the Choctaws in 1820.  It is a long narrow county situated in the Mississippi and Yazoo delta, and is bounded on the north by Washington and Sharkey counties, on the east by Sharkey and Warren, on the south by Warren and on the west by the Mississippi River. 

 

 

MAYERSVILLE, MISSISSIPPI

Issaquena Co., created 1844, established its seat of gov't. at Mayersville in 1872. David Mayer donated this historic Mississippi River port site to the country for the founding of the town in 1871.

Location:  Mayersville

Courthouse Square

 

Issaquena County Links and Information

 

 

 

Military Records

World War II Enlistments for Issaquena County

Acuff - Young

 

World War II Roster

Issaquena Roll of Honor

 

 

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    Native American Links 

  • Native American Genealogy 

  • Chickasaw Historical Research Page 

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    Land Search & Maps

     

  • BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT Searchable database for land patents.  This is a must visit site.
     If you have questions about land boundaries during the 17 and 1800s,  visit one of these sites. 

  • UNITED STATES TERRITORIAL MAP

  • Land Boundaries of the developing United States

  • Historical Maps of the United States

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    Cyndi's List of MS Genealogical Sites
     

                                                          

     

                            

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