What's New
June 19, 2008- Added Old Rodney
Photos, Yellow Fever in Jefferson County and
Jefferson County in the News-contributed by Sue
Moore.
February 7, 2008 - Added the
Early History of Jefferson County - contributed by Sue Moore. This is also
linked to from the Trivia page.
December 13, 2007 - Added photo and obituary of
Ida Belle Moore Costley - contributed by Peggy
Ellefson Lund
October 31, 2007 - Added
Fayette High School Class of 1930 - Several articles about the class, photo
of the 1929/30 Football team and cards of the Senior Class and an invitation to
a party for the Senior Class. Contributed by Charles Dawkins.
October 15, 2007 - Added
Fayette News From the Past - Contributed by Janice Rice
October 9, 2007 - added Biography of
James Gillam Wood, with a photo, contributed by
Charles Dawkins. Also added Extinct Towns and
Villages of Jefferson County, MS in 1902, contributed by Sue B. Moore.
September 14, 2007 - added
Jefferson County Connections - a place to
list available books, web pages, etc, about Jefferson County.
September 10, 2007 - Moved Jefferson County MSGenWeb to
its own domain! -
http://jeffersoncountyms.org
May 4, 2007 - Added 1823 State
Census for Jefferson County - contributed by AnnieG.
May 2, 2007 - Began adding
Mortality Schedules for Jefferson County, contributed by AnnieG. Also added
Jefferson County Mississippi Brand Register -
contributed by Tony Miller. Everything can now be reached from the index at the
top of each page. All pages not converted to new format yet so you will
need to use your back button on those few pages.
February 22, 2007 - Making very good time on upgrading
the website! Found a few things I forgot were there <grin>! Also
have a New Item - 1890 Veteran's Schedule for Rodney, MS
- contributed by Janice Rice
February 14, 2007 - Began a total update of the entire
site. Please bear with me until it is done. I think you will like
it. I will leave the old table of contents in place until everything is
completed.
January 19, 2007 - Began cleanup of
marriage database - it is now much faster
loading and cleaner looking. Posted a photo of the Fayette Academy Class
of 193? and a photo of the Fayette
Academy - both contributed by Dr. Walter Dawkins. Also began
transcribing returns for various years of the Masonic Records - contributed by
Charles Dawkins. The ones available now are:
November 27, 2006 - Added wonderful article and
photographs of the Thomas Hinds Masonic Lodge contributed by Charles Dawkins -
Masons 1 - Presbyterians 0!
September 28, 2006 - Added
Excerpts from the Slave Petitions to the Mississippi
Legislature - transcribed and contributed by Janice Rice Stevens. The
records deal mostly with emancipations. A real treasure trove for
African-American Researchers!
June 8, 2006 - Began a page for
Woodlawn Plantation - Beginning to receive a lot of information on this
plantation, one of the oldest in the county. Watch for additions to this
page! First item is the Slave Narrative of Peter Brown,
born at Woodlawn in 1852.
March 29, 2006 - Added
Civil War Letters from John Cato to his wife, Martha Newman Cato
contributed by Linda Durr Rudd. I must apologize to Linda for the delay
in getting these up she submitted them some time ago and they just got lost in
the shuffle of my absent-minded brain!
March 29, 2006 - Added 1805
Census of the Territory for Jefferson County
March 6, 2006 - Changed the
picture on the index page to some photos of Rodney and asked for all
visitors to contact the Supervisors and the MDAH Department of Historic
Preservation to help us get the road to Rodney more accessible and easier to
find! Please help us make one of the oldest towns in MS accessible to
the public!
February 27, 2006 - Added
Freedman Savings & Trust Company 1865-1874 Register of signatures of
depositors born in Jefferson County. These records are available on
Microfilm through your Local Family History Center from the main library in
Salt Lake City, Utah. If you find a relative, let me know and I will look up
the record and tell you all the information on the card. This is truly one of
the great resources for African-American researchers. Contributed by Ann Allen
Geoghegan.
January 13, 2006 - Added
Petition of Andrew Barland to the Mississippi General Assembly
circa, 1824, found by Sue B. Moore and used with permission of the University
of North Carolina. The original is in the Mississippi Department of Archives
and History in Jackson.
November 10, 2005 - Added the long awaited research
paper by Andy McMillion on the Hunt Family of
Jefferson County. The Hunts were some of the earliest residents of
the area, arriving when we were still Pickering County. It is a long
read but an excellent one! Many thanks Andy!
April 13, 2005 - Added three new links on the Family
Web Sites Page -
Family of Henry Nichols,
The Past Whispers "Home of the Battle of Seven Pines" and many other
great pages and My
Great-Grandfather's Attic Surnames: Garrett, Dawkins, Warren,
Jackson.
April 2, 2005 - Added 1816
Jefferson County Census - Contributed by Sue B. Moore
March 23, 2005 - Added a list of
Populated Places from the US Geological Survey.
March 19, 2005 - Added The Plantations of David Hunt
contributed by Andy McMillion
February 23, 2005 - Added photo of
Thomas Hinds also updated background and
reorganized the Table of Contents.
January 27, 2005 - Have a great year everybody! I
updated the look of the site! Also
added Why We Do Genealogy by Jan Philpot and updated 20th Century Wars
to include losses from Operation Iraqi Freedom!
October 25, 2004 - Added a page for
Masonic History in Jefferson County. If anyone has any history or
stories of the Lodges in Jefferson County please send them to me!
October 1, 2004 - Added a list of
Plantations and Tracts in Jefferson County which
were abstracted from a map which was made in 1941 by
Edgar Tobin Aerial Surveys. A very special thank you
goes to the late Everette Truly for sharing this priceless data with
Ann
Brown before his death and to our
"Resident Jefferson Researcher"
for her wonderful contribution of this list.
Thanks "Anebec" from all of us!
June 30, 2004 - Added a wonderful
Oration by Dr. John Savage delivered on the 4th of
July, 1837 at Rodney, MS. Contributed by James W. Norris
May 29, 2004 - At long last Mari Byers
has contributed some of the contents of her great-grandmother's scrapbook!
What a treasure! See the Harper Pages!
Thanks bunches to Mari and her 5-year-old granddaughter Taylor Sullivan who helped
her!
May 16, 2004 - Added a list of
Possible Confederates Buried in Union Church
Cemetery - compiled by George Purvis (better known as gpthelastrebel !)
April 25, 2004 - Added a
Letter from Mr. John Ker to the Mississippi
State Legislature regarding the wills of Captain Isaac Ross and his daughter
Mrs. M. A. Reed - December 15, 1841. This concerned the transportation of his
slaves to the Liberian Colony by Captain Ross and his daughter. Very
interesting reading!
April 20, 2004 - Added a wonderful
photograph of some Rodney Natives who attended
the Rodney Presbyterian Church. The photo originally appeared in the
Jackson Clarion Ledger but unfortunately we don't know the date. If
anyone knows when this wonderful photo was taken please let
me know!
Submitted by George Blair. Thanks, George!
March 11, 2004 - Added the
Facts Unravel #11 by Bruce D. Liddell
- Thanks Bruce!
March 6, 2004 - Added the
Diary of Walter Bisland Wade. Contributed by
Kevin Ross Richlin. (This document requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
This is a wonderful glimpse of life in Jefferson County during the "Gay
Nineties"!
March 5, 2004 - Thanks
to Kevin Ross Richlin we now have the Susan Sillers Darden Diary in *Adobe PDF format!
Kevin is the grandson of Jewell Ross who originally typed the diary into its
present format in 1978. Many thanks to Kevin! *(Requires Acrobat
Reader) Don't have it? Download it here for free! Just click on the icon!
February 18, 2004 - Added the
Roster and Muster Roll of Darden's
Battery prepared by James Vaughan. This is an excellent piece of
work and should be helpful to everyone with an ancestor in the Jefferson
Artillery!
January 16, 2004 - Added the Community
of McBride researched and provided by Sue
Moore
December 27, 2003 - Added the
Shaw Family Bible Record, the
Milsaps Family Bible Record and the obituaries
of Horace G. Milsaps and
Francis Marion Milsaps -all transcribed and
contributed by Ernest Carroll Rucker.
December 9, 2003 - Added
Jefferson County General Land Records -
Indexed by Township and Range. Also added the latest installment of
The Facts Unravel -#8 contributed by Bruce D.
Liddell and the family trees of the Hackler and
Scott families, contributed by India Wolf.
November 17, 2003 - Added
The Jefferson Troop and Thomas Hinds - contributed
by Sue Moore. Also added A History of Rodney MS and Oakland College
by John A. Limerick - contributed by Bruce D. Liddell. Also added a
new map to the USS
Rattler story and further clarification of the history of the USS Rattler.
November 1, 2003 - Added
Servants Listed on the Membership Roll of
March 1849 to the Union Church Presbyterian Church - contributed by Linda
Rudd
October 30, 2003 - The Facts Unravel #6
raised a few questions so Bruce decided to do a whole article on the
USS Rattler! Check out the latest
contribution by Bruce D. Liddell.
October 26, 2003 - With so many contributions of newspapers and newspaper
articles coming in to the Jefferson County MSGenWeb Project I decided it might
be a good idea to centralize them. So with that in mind, I have started a new
project called: The Jefferson County
MSGenWeb Newspaper Transcription Project
October 21, 2003 - Added
Deborah Spence Baldridge Johnson to the Tributes
Page. Contributed by Nancy Brister.
Added a link to the
Church Hill
Cemetery-Christ Church Transcription. (which for some reason, was
sent to Adams County MSGenWeb!)
and last but certainly not least: Added
A Way Of Life -
a chapter from “A History of Jefferson
County”, a thesis prepared in 1960 for a Master of Arts in the Department of
History at Mississippi College by Nancy L. Norton. I have been given
the whole thesis and will be putting it online one chapter at a time.
October 20, 2003 - Added
March 1849 Member Roll for Union Church
Presbyterian Church - contributed by Linda Rudd
October 16, 2003 - Added Annabel Powers
History of the Old Presbyterian Church at Rodney
- Contributed by Annette Bowen
October 13, 2003 - Added L.
Cohn - Lorman, Mississippi to the Expo 1904
Edition. Also added 1860 Jefferson Census
Free People of Color, compiled and contributed by yours truly!
October 12,
2003 - Added Facts Unravel #6 - by Bruce D.
Liddell
Also
added Expo 1904 Biographies which includes
25 Biographies with Photos to the Expo 1904
Section! Check to see if your family member is here!
October 10,
2003 - Added Jefferson County High School and
Typical Jefferson County Homes and
Fayette Churches to the
Expo 1904 Section
October 9, 2003
- Added Fayette Presbyterian Church Vacation
Bible School Class from the Early 1950's and
Jefferson County High School Catalog for
1917-1918 contributed by Charles Dawkins.
October 3, 2003
- Added Advertisements to the
Expo 1904 Section.
October 1, 2003
- Added McClure & Harper's Store,
Krauss & Sons Store and
S. Hirsch Store to the
Expo 1904 Section. Also added two obituaries -
Arthur Ellis Jackson and
Delaney C. Jackson, Sr.
September 30,
2003 - Added 1830 Census Index - Transcribed
by Janice S. Rice and Proofread by Ann Allen Geoghegan
September 29,
2003 - Added Jefferson County Agriculturally and
Industrially by M. C. Harper to the Expo 1904
Section. Also added Facts Unravel #4 and
Facts Unravel #5 to
Bruce Liddell's Column.
September 28,
2003 - Added County Officials ,
Fayette by Judge Jeff Truly and
Jefferson County by E. R. Jones to the
Expo 1904 Section
September 26,
2003 - Began Adding the 1904 Expo Special Edition
of the Fayette Chronicle - Contributed by Pat Taylor
September
19,2003 - Added Thomas Hinds to the Biography
Section. Submitted by Sue Moore. Thanks Sue!
September 4,
2003 - Old Tavern Licenses in Jefferson County,
contributed by Al Whitehead of Henderson, TX. This covers the
years 1811, 1812 and1813. Al is a descendant of James Whitehead, one of
the first Tavern Keepers in Old Greenville and also one of the first
Constables.
September 3,
2003 - Added latest edition of The Facts Unravel
#3 by Bruce D. Liddell
August 31, 2003
- Added The 1869 Freedmen Tax Roll -
copied by Ann Brown in 1977 from the Jefferson County Tax Records. Also
added the 1830 Free People of Color and
1850 Free People of Color from the
Jefferson County Census. This was also compiled and contributed by Ann Brown. Should be a
big boost for African-American Research in Jefferson County! Thanks, Ann
August 28, 2003
- Added interesting photo of an old house
in Rodney. Does anyone recognize it? Wouldn't it be great if those old
walls could talk?!
August 20, 2003
- Added new Site Index
for ease of navigation. Several new categories created and some old ones
combined.
Look
for all your favorites and browse around the new ones!
August 15, 2003 - Added the 1820 Jefferson County
Census Index. The completed census will be available in the Archives
soon.
August 14, 2003 - Added The Silver Water Pitcher
- A story of Pecan Grove Plantation - written by Mrs. W. B. Conklin of
Illinois
(b.1856 - d.1942) Contributed by Sam Lenaeus, from his private
collection of his Great-great grandmother's papers.
August 12, 2003 - Added 1820 Free Persons of Color
Transcribed from the 1820 Jefferson County Census
image and
contributed by Ann Allen Geoghegan. I lucked up on this census page! I
have not found it included in any listing of Jefferson County anywhere else!
August 2, 2003 - Added "The Bandits - Mason & Harpe"
contributed by Sue B. Moore
July 31, 2003 - Added Buell Tavern (later known as
Truly Tavern) - contributed by Charles Dawkins from a file he found in the
MDAH WPA records for Jefferson County. Really interesting!
July 24, 2003 - Added the rest of the Fayette District and the Red Lick
District to the 1832 Minutes of the Board of
Supervisors Assignment of Road Overseers found and contributed by Sue B.
Moore. These have been added to the ones contributed by Ann Brown. Also
added Jurors
of the Circuit Court, Jefferson County,
September Term 1832
contributed by Sue B. Moore. Sue also sent in some
Early Court Cases from when the county was
still named Pickering!
July 17, 2003 - Added more Jefferson County
Slave Court Records Also added a HUGE panoramic photo of the
Jefferson County Agricultural High School from
1929/1930. WARNING! This file is VERY
large and takes a LONG time to load!
If anyone can identify some of the folks in that class photo, please let me
know! Thanks so much to contributor Judy Valentine for this wonderful
glimpse of the past!
July 9, 2003 - Added Excerpts from Jefferson County
Slave Court Records - contributed by Sue B. Moore - Look for more to come!
Very interesting reading!
June 28, 2003 - Added Excerpts from J. R. Hutchinson's book,
Reminiscences, Sketches and Addresses Selected from
My Papers During a Ministry of Forty-five Years in Mississippi, Louisiana and
Texas Contributed by Sue B. Moore
June 27, 2003 - Added the Year 1857 of the
Susan Sillers Darden Diary. Very hard year; worst
winter in years, smallpox epidemic and scarlet fever outbreak at the same time!
Many marriages.
March 17, 2003 - Added two very important NEW links to Jefferson Information on the Web! These sites are located on the contributor's website but really are a must see for Jefferson Researchers:
1860 Jefferson County, MS Slave Schedule
by Linda Durr Rudd
Union Church Cemetery Transcription
by Nancy Brister
March 10, 2003 - Added a wonderful article which was first published in 1881 regarding a fox hunting trip to the "Maryland Settlement" in the winter of 1836/1837.
Contributed by Charles Dawkins.
March 9, 2003 - At long last I have added 1856 to the Susan Sillers Darden Diary!
February 26, 2003 - Added "The Family Tree" to the Genealogy, We Love It! page - contributed by Jane Combs
February 24, 2003 - Added 1917 Jefferson County High School Annual - contributed by Bruce D. Liddell
February 22, 2003 - Added Excerpts from the Diary of James Campbell 1819 - Reprinted with permission from the Clarion Ledger, Jackson MS. Found and contributed by Sue B. Moore
February 21, 2003 - Added Photo of 7th Grade Class and 6th Grade Boys of Fayette High School 1947 - Contributed by Charles Dawkins
Also added Poplar Grove Plantation Records and 1894 Educable Children - Contributed by Toni Stewart
February 20, 2003 - Added photo of old Jefferson Courthouse contributed by T. L. Williams.
February 18, 2003 - Added Photo of Fayette High School Class of 1925 - Contributed by Charles Dawkins
February 2, 2003 - Added 1956 Fayette High School Annual - contributed by Mary Virginia Geoghegan Greer who was a member of the Freshman Class that year!
January 31, 2003 - Added Obituary of Roy Stampley of Fayette - aged 101 years, 6 months, 7 days - contributed by Rebecca Johnson
January 22, 2003 - Added Will of Phillip May - 1833 - contributed by Imogene Boswell
January 9, 2003 - Added beautiful map of 1830 Natchez Road (now called the Natchez Trace)! contributed by Ann Allen Geoghegan
Liddell-Brown Slave Records contributed by Bruce D. Liddell
Liddell Family Bible Records including Bible images! Contributed by Bruce D. Liddell
Obituary of Romulus Remus Liddell contributed by Bruce D. Liddell
Obituary of Edward Isaac Reed contributed by Bruce D. Liddell
Civil War Money issued in Fayette, Jefferson County! Contributed by Bruce D. Liddell.
100 Years Ago - Excerpts from the Fayette Chronicle from February 20, 1903!
Also contributed by Bruce D. Liddell
If you enjoy these as much as I did, please welcome this new contributor and member of our mailing list! His address is at the bottom of the pages.
Dear Ancestor contributed by Jane Combs
Orphan Court Records for James Eldridge Sisson - contributed by Janice Rice
January 2, 2003 - Added Letter from Albert Shaw to his father.
List of slaves mortgaged and also list distributed at death of Thomas Cogan of Jefferson County.
Last Will and Testament of Drucilla J. Chambliss, contributed by Leland Chambliss.
Declaration of William Barefield concerning the secret hunting and killing of cattle &hogs.
Several new Surname researchers on the Surnames page.
Civil War Wall of Honor - Honoring our Glorious Dead - Jefferson Soldiers KIA
Please send me some more! Photos and Bios welcome for this page!
January 1, 2003 - Happy New Year! May each of you have a very prosperous New Year!
December 9, 2002 - Added 2 new stories to Genealogy, We Love it! Also added a new poem to the
Civil War Home Page.
December 6, 2002 - Reworked the Photos page into separate collections for each contributor and added a new collection from Diane Shackelford Small, thanks Diane! Also added an Awards page for awards received by this site along with Web Rings this site is a member of!
November 24, 2002 - Minutes of the Jefferson County Court July - 1832 Appointment of Road Overseers
November 20, 2002 - Reorganized Obituary page and added several obituaries. added family group photo of Garrett family, added 4 new researchers to the researchers page, and added a link to a New website for Union Church Presbyterian Church to the African-American page. The new page is about the servants who were members of the church.
November 4, 2002 - Added
Jefferson County Family Group Sheet Project
October 24, 2002 - Added Frank Alexander Montgomery, George Forman, Samuel, David & Ezekiel Forman, and Thomas Lee, Sr. Biographies.
October 23, 2002 - Added Reminisces of a Mississippian in War and Peace
by Frank Alexander Montgomery - originally published in 1901.
October 22, 2002 - Added 1855 to the
Susan Sillers Darden Diary Bad Yellow Fever year! Many deaths listed in the diary.
October 21, 2002 - Changed MSGenWeb Logo to New Logo! Isn't it Nice!
October 20, 2002 - Reorganized the Census records and renamed it Jefferson County Census Project - added
1930 Rodney and
1930 Harriston
October 19, 2002 - Annie Belle Pierce McNeill Unknown Photo Collection
October 18, 2002 - Began addition of Susan Sillers Darden Diary
October 18, 2002 - New easier-to-read format for site.
October 17, 2002 - Jefferson County Civil War Project
October 17, 2002 - What's New Page
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