CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Creation of Bolivar County

Original Vegetation, Birds and Animals

Rivers, Lakes and Bayous

The First Settlement

Population of Bolivar County, 1840-1940

Pioneer Periods

Proceedings of the Board of Police and Board of Supervisors

County Officers, 1836-1946

Original Land Entries

First Court

First Deeds, Mortgages, Bonds, Old Wills

First Marriage Licenses

Old Wills and Inventories

Officers and Members of Board of Mississippi Levee Commissioners from Bolivar County

History of the County Seat

Roads in Bolivar County

Early Explorers, Indian Settlers, Traces, Indian Lawsuit

Letters to Miss Nancy Stephens, 1846

Recollections of Early Days

Glimpses of Life on a Cotton Plantation Before the War Between the States

Antebellum Woman

Early Towns and Villages

Civil War/Spanish-American War

After the War

Reconstruction

Life in Bolivar County in 1872

Bolivar County in 1888

Pioneer Days in East Bolivar

Prohibition in Bolivar County

Record of Bolivar County in WWI

Later Bolivar County and Institutions and Organizations

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