My interest in Mississippi relates to my Smith genealogy research.
States the border Mississippi are Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Tennessee. Mississippi’s ten largest cities are Jackson, Gulfport, Hattiesburg, Southhaven, Biloxi, Meridian, Tupelo, Greenville, Olive Branch and Horn Lake.
One of my ancestors worked for a time as a plantation overseer in or around Carroll County, Mississippi, in the 1840s or 1850s. I was curious about this employment as he was a small landowner himself – why would he leave his own property to work for others? Well, I still don’t know the answer…
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…
Leflore County was established on March 15, 1871 from Sunflower County, Carroll County and Tallahatchie County. The county was named in honor of Greenwood LeFlore, a Choctaw Indian Chief advocate of citizenship for Native Americans and U.S. Senator from Mississippi. Leflore County is located in in the Delta Region of Mississippi. The first settlement on…
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…
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…
Some of my early Smiths stopped in Paris, Tennessee, in the 1820s for a sojourn of a few years, before moving south to Mississippi. Most of the early growth in the Western District occurred on the gently sloping interior plateau where the land was fertile and the drainage better than along the Mississippi. One of…
