Many of my Smith ancestors lived in Carroll County, Mississippi, including my grandfather, great-grandfather, and so on. One Smith, not in my direct line, was Harry Smith, who owned the Pine Bluff Plantation. If you type in the place name of Pine Bluff, MS, into Google maps, you will be shown a spot at the …
Category : Carroll County
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My great-grandfather and second great-grandfather lived on Clifton Plantation in Carroll County, Mississippi. That’s interesting, I’d love to know more. I tried and failed to find it on my own, but luckily, some Smith relatives stepped up to help me locate it – thanks, Smiths!!! Although no Smiths own any of the property now, and …
Seven Pines School Hemingway, Carroll County, Mississippi November 11, 1907 Back Row, left to right: Ann Judson Smith, Teacher Sue Marian Pentecost Annie Lynn Smith Jimmie Ella Pentecost Annie Mae Browning Ruth Wells Hunter Browning Allie Browning Sue Darcus Pentecost Center Row: James Waders Smith Front Row, left to right: Phillip Pentecost Clinton McClellan Smith …
Carroll County was created 23 December 1833 from the Choctaw Cession. Its county seats are Carollton and Vaiden Mississippi. The county is named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving signatory of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. County records are housed in Vaiden. Carroll County is inside the Mississippi Delta, although most of its …