Pontotoc County, Mississippi
Genealogy and History

Peggy A. Young, County Coordinator
Marka' Bland - Assistant County Coordinator
Jeff Kemp - State Cordinator Denise Wells - Assistant State Coordinator
Ann Allen Geoghegan - Assistant State Coordinator
Friday, 03-Sep-2010 00:45:43 EDT

Monroe Mission Cemetery

ARCHIVES

• Archives at Pontotoc County Genweb
• World War I Draft Registrations

BIBLE RECORDS

• Albritton and Franklin Family Bible
• Callaway Family Bibles
• Clayton Family Bible Records
• Franklin Family Bible Records
• Gillespie Family Bible Records
• Lucinda Pinson Hill Family Bible
• (NEW)
• Swinney Family Bible, Submitted by Ed Corey.
• Wade Shelton Family Bible

BIOGRAPHIES

• Elijah Alexander
• Biography of William Bigham
• James Carpenter
• Annie Coleman Castleberry
• William Castleberry
• Daniel Coleman, Father of Annie Coleman Castleberry
• Daniel Thomas Coleman and Some of His Ancestors
• Robert Cooper, Soldier of the American Revolution
• James Hemphill, Soldier of the American Revolution
• Autobiography of William Jolly
• Henry and Louisa Sullivan
• Biography of Silas Wood
• (NEW)
• Thomas and Eliza Reeder Young
• John Porter and Martha Ann Miears, Info and Picture of Smyrna Cemetery
• John Stewart Cromwell

BOOKS AVAILABLE

• Research Materials for Pontotoc
• (Updated)
• Pontotoc County Historical Society Books, Chickasaw County History Books and Personal Family History Books

CEMETERY LOCATIONS

• Northeast Map
• Northwest Map
• Southeast Map
• Southwest Map
• Cemetery List
• If you have contact information regarding the care and maintenance of ANY Pontotoc County Cemetery please send it to me so I can post it here.  People frequently write to me asking who to contact and most are prepared to pay for maintenance services for their loved one's grave.  I have no information at this time.

CEMETERY TRANSCRIPTIONS AND LINKS

• Antioch Cemetery
• Betts
• Bramlett
• Buckhorn
• (NEW)
• Callaway
• Campground
• Cherry Creek
• Chesterville
• Freeman
• Johnson Cemetery (photographs and transcription)
• (NEW)
• Oakhill Cemetery
• (NEW)
• Old County Line Cemetery (Photograph & Transcriptions)
• Old Poplar Springs updated
• Pleasant Grove
• Pontotoc City
• Ridgeway
• Troy
• Cemetery Records in the State Archives
• You can check here to see if there is a published record of a cemetery at the State Archives in Jackson.

CEMETERY PHOTOGRAPHS

• Grave Markers of John and Josie Odle
• Grave Marker of Minnie Coleman Odle
• Grave Marker of John Porter and Martha Miears

CENSUS RECORDS

• Sign Up to Transcribe a Census
• 1837 State Census
• 1840 Census
• 1850 Census in the Pontotoc County Archives
• 1845 State Census
• 1860 Census in the Pontotoc County Archives
• 1860 Mortality Schedule
• 1860 Slave Schedule  Very large file!
• 1870 Mortality Schedule
• 1880 Census at LDS Family Search
• Censustools.com  Free templates!

CHURCHES

• List of Churches
• Camp Ground Church
• Pontotoc Church of Christ
• Lebanon Presbyterian Church
• Methodist Church at Toccopola
• Toccopola Baptist Church
• White Zion Church
• History of White Zion
• Old Zion Church
• White Zion:  150 Years
• White Zion Facts
• White Zion Photographs
• White Zion Timeline
• Smyrna Primitive Baptist Church
• Churches of Mississippi  This site is worth visiting. Churches are listed by county and communities.

CIVIL WAR

• Confederate Unit Rosters :   Transcribed by Jennie Belle Stephens Smith and donated by Martha Stephens Cofield. 
  • Bradford's Battery
  • Co, C., 41st
  • Dragoons
  • Dragoons 2
  • Grays
  • Rangers
  • Rebels
  • Southern Revengers
  • Talibonella Rifles
• Civil War Exhibit At The Pontotoc Library
• • Confederate Units
  • 2nd MS Infantry Roster Co. G
  • Biographies Co. G, 2nd MS Infantry
  • • A - E
    • F - L
    • M - Z
  • 41st Mississippi Infantry
  • 43rd Mississippi Infantry
  • Captain Smith's Co., 43rd MS Infantry
  • 43rd Roster, Annotated
  • Muster Roll Pontotoc Dragoons
  • Muster Roll Pontotoc Minute Men
  • Muster Roll of Privates,1859-1864 Record of the Pontotoc County Militia by Betty Casey
  • County Militia, Pontotoc Beat
         R A Miller, Captain; C.D. Fontaine, Captain - 97 men
  • County Militia, Turkkland Beat (Now in Union County)
         A S Smith, Captain - 11 men
  • County Militia, Rocky Ford (Now in Union County),
          J W Tate, 1st Lt. - 33 men
  • County Militia, Plentitude, Line Community, Pontotoc Union
          J P Duff, Captain - 41 men
  • County Militia, Randolph
         L P Conlee, Lt - 43 men
  • County Militia, Chesterville, Line Community, Pontotoc-Lee
          J J Miller, Captain - 30 men
  • County Militia, Prairie Grove, Line Community, Pontotoc-Lee
          H C Wilson, Captain - 40 men
  • County Militia, Ellistown (Now in Union County)
         52 men
  • County Militia, Redland Beat
         John T Mayo, Captain - 44 men

  Pontotoc County Militia

  • Beat 1 Lines 1-100
  • Beat 1 Lines 101-200
  • Beat 1 Lines 201-300
  • Beat 1 Lines 301-400
  • Beat 1 Lines 401-470
  • Beat 2 Lines 1-100
  • Beat 2 Lines 101-200
  • Beat 2 Lines 201-281
  • Beat 3 Lines 1-100
  • Beat 3 Lines 101-220
  • Beat 4 Lines 1-97
  • Beat 5 Lines 1-100
  • Beat 5 Lines 101-200
  • Beat 5 Lines 201-263
  • Beat 6 Lines 1-100
  • Beat 6 Lines 101-200
  • Beat 6 Lines 201-300
  • Beat 6 Lines 301-361
  • Beat 7 Lines 1-150
  • Beat 7 Lines 151-259
  • Beat 8 Lines 1-112 (Missing)
  • Beat 8 Lines 113-241
  • Unknown Beat Lines 1-341
  • Beat 10 Lines 1-427
  • Beat 13 Lines 1-129
  Index to Amnesty Oath Register
• Civil War Letters
• Valentine Orr Civil War Record

COMMUNITIES

• Algoma  (see also SCHOOLS)

CONTACT OTHER RESEARCHERS

• Roll Call of Surnames and Researchers  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
• Brick Walls
• Subscribe to the Mailing list: put the word subscribe in the message body.
• Pontotoc County Query Board at GenForum
• Pontotoc County Query Board at Ancestry
• Old Query Archive and Researchers Archive

The Archives,  the Jennie Bell Stephens Smith Confederate Rosters, and files on other websites are not indexed by the search engine. Use the "find on this page" feature of your browser for the archives files. Since the rosters are images you will have to look at each page.

Neighboring Counties

COUNTY OFFICES

• CHANCERY CLERK (Divorce, wills, land records)
• Reggie M. Collums
• P.O. Box 209
• Pontotoc, MS 38863
• 662-489-3900, Fax: 489-3940
•  
• CIRCUIT CLERK (Marriage records)
• Tracy L. Robinson
• P.O. Box 428
• Pontotoc, MS 38863
• 662-489-3908, Fax: 489-3940

DEEDS

• Jamison -  Brame Deed 2 December 1858

HISTORIC TOUR OF PONTOTOC COUNTY

• The Pontotoc County Historical Society
• P.O. Box 141
• Pontotoc, Mississippi 38863

HOMEPAGES WITH PONTOTOC COUNTY ROOTS

• (NEW)
• The Bodock Post by Carl Wayne Hardeman, Ralph R. Jones, and Wayne Carter
• Gordons of Lochinvar by Forrest T.Tutor, M.D.
• Caldwell Family
• Bill Strong's Eclectic Mississippi Photo Tour
• Hunting Those Stewarts by Peggy Young
• The Vickers  by Peggy Young
• Von Behren Genealogies  Pontotoc families and photographs of Robbs Cemetery
• (NEW)
• Peggy Riggs Kopp Riggs, Wells, Coleman, Gouge, Taylor, Greff, Thomas, Swearengen, Ponder
• Miller-Walton-Wiley-Thompson Families
• Bob Thompson's site. Surnames: Matthews/Mathews, Roye, Johnston, Robbins, Stegall, Sewell, Gillespie, Tully, Jamison, Mask, Davis, Anderson, Shannon, Lambert, Prather/Prater and Tutor.
• Bramblett-Bramlett Information Center: Almost endless variety of information about the Bramlett family in America with many Pontotoc County connections.
• (NEW)
• Elizabeth Howard West; Link submitted by Mitch Caver
• Descendants of James Logan Colbert  Kerry Armstrong's site about the well known Colbert family of the Chickasaw tribe.
• The Beckley Family of Pontotoc County by Melvin Collier

LETTERS TO, FROM, ABOUT PONTOTOC COUNTIANS

• Annie Thomason Weatherall Letter
• Atkinson Harris Letter
• Beauchamp Monroe Letter 1866
• Spencer Wilder to Washington Wilder, 1852
• Civil War Letters
• John E. Hudson Civil War Letters

LEGAL DOCUMENTS

• Summons for Evelyn Evans, 1858
• US Congressionak Bill re Ayres land purchase

LOCAL LIBRARIES

• Dixie Regional Library System

MAPS

• Mississippi  at SEGenealogy.com
• County Formation Maps 1785--1918
• Census Maps 1800 - 1920

MARRIAGES

• Marriages from the Old Query System by Groom:
• • A-G      H-Z
• Marriages by Deb Anderson and Barb Cerveny
• Linda (Henderson) Power's Marriage Records
• • A-F     G-L     M-0
  • P-R     S-Z

MISCELLANEOUS LINKS

• National World War II Memorial
•    This site includes a searchable registry and you may submit the names of those who served for inclusion in the registry.
• National Archives and Records Administration
• Search electronic records online or search the catalog. This site has been greatly improved!
• Beauvoir Confederate Veterans Home   Confederate soldiers and their wives who lived at and or were buried at Beauvoir.
• Find-A-Grave Nationwide

MISSISSIPPI GENWEB RESOURCES

• MSGenWeb Home Page and County list
• MsGenWeb Archives
• MS City and Town List
• Unknown County Queries

NATIVE AMERICANS

• Chickasaw Historical Research Page
• James Logan Colbert Descendants
• Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians

NEWSPAPERS

• The Pontotoc Progress
• 19 South Liberty
• Pontotoc, MS 38863
• 662-489-3511
• Tupelo Daily Journal

OBITUARIES

• Individual Obituaries
• Lockhart Obituaries
• Obituaries From The Pontotoc Progress
• • A     B     C     D     E     F
  • G     H     I J   K     L     M
  • Mc   N     O     P     R     S
  • T     W     XYZ    

PHOTOGRAPHS

• Elijah Alexander
• Bost Family 1
• Bost Family  2
• Caldwell Family
• Callaway Family
• Callaway Family 2
• Callaway Family 3
• Rev. James Render Callaway
• Robert A Callaway
• Robert Andrew Callaway
• James W. Carpenter
• Ferguson Family
• WB Gilmer Home
• Robert Samuel HODGES Sr. and  Nancy E. Aunt Puss WOOD
• Hospital
• McCharen Family Page 2
• McCharen Family
• Luther Mize and Fletcher Ann Powell Mize
• Odle and Hutchinson Family
• Owen Family
• Joseph Perry Owen Jr. Family
• Little Joe Owen and the Revenooers
• Joseph Perry Owen Family
• Pittman Hemphill Family Photographs
• Sewell Family
• Short Hotel at Toccopola
• Henry and Louisa Sullivan
• Unknown Family
• Unknown Grissom Family
• Unknown Subject
• Unknown Photographs from the Photo Album of Maude Hodges Suddoth
• Unknown Toccpola Family
• Williams Family
• Williams Photograph
• Syla Ophelia Wood
• Thomas Jackson Wood

Planning A Visit?

Order Vital Records

• Mississippi Department of Archives and History
• Mississippi Public Health Statistics   Order birth, death, marriage certificates from the state vital records bureau.

POSTCARDS

• Lochinvar
• Stony Lonesome

QUERIES

• Pontotoc County Query
  Board at GenForum
• Pontotoc County Query
  Board at Ancestry

OLD QUERY ARCHIVE

SURNAMES:

• A     B     C     D     E
• F     G     H     I     J
• K     L     M     N     O
• P     Q     R     S     T
• U     V     W     X     Y
• Z

SURNAME REGISTER AND QUERY INDEX

• A B     C     D - F     G
• H      I - K     L     M
• N - Q     R     S    T - V
• W - Z

RESEARCHER PROFILES

• A  B - C D - F G  H - M
• N - R S  T - Z

QUERIES BY DATE

• August - December 1996
• January - March 1997
• April - May 1997
• June - July 1997
• August - October 1997
• November - December 1997
• January - February 1998
• March - April 1998
• May - July 1998
• August - September 1998
• October - November 1998
• December 1998 - March 1999
• April 1999

SCHOOLS

• List of Schools in Pontotoc County
• History of Algoma Schools
• Algoma Yearbook Photographs
• Yearbook Cover
• Algoma Then and Now
• Algoma First School 1894, Old School, 1910, 1948 School & School Board
• Algoma School 1948 Miscellaneous
• Algoma Class of 1948 Yearbook dedication
• Algoma Class of 1948
• Algoma 1947 and 1948 Sports
• Algoma School 1949 - 1951
• Algoma Class of 1951
• Algoma Class of 1953
• Algoma 1953 Basketball
• Algoma Class of 1953 in Seventh Grade
• Algoma Class of 1954(1)
• Algoma Class of 1954(2)
• Algoma Class of 1954(3)
• Algoma 1954 Boys Basketball
• Algoma 1954 Girls Basketball
• Algoma 1954 Bus Drivers
• Algoma 1955 4H Club
• Algoma Class of 1955
• Algoma 1955 Basketball Team
• Algoma 1955 Faculty
• Algoma Class of 1955 in First Grade
• Algoma Girls Basketball 1957
• Algoma Girls Basketball 1958
• Algoma Senior Trip 1958
• Algoma Class of 1958
• Algoma Girls
• Algoma Boy Scouts
• Algoma Second Graders
• Algoma Class of 1959
• Algoma Class of 1959 Reunion in 1995
• Algoma Class of 1960
• Algoma Class of 1961 in 5th and 6th grades
• Algoma Class of 1961 in Seventh Grade
• Algoma Class of 1961
• Algoma Class of 1961 Reunion 2001
• Algoma Class of 1961 at Pickwick
• Algoma Class of 1962
• Algoma Class of 1966
• Algoma Class of 1969
• Buckhorn School Yearbook
• Page 1
• Page 2
• Page 3
• Page 4
• Page 5
• Page 6
• Ferrell School, 1919
• Hurricane School Building and History
• Hurricane School links to various Photographs
• Hurricane School Student Body circa 1910 (picture with Names)
• Hurricane School Students, 1916 and 1919
• Hurricane School Classes 1927-1935
• Hurricane School Faculty, 1923-24 and 1930's
• Hurricane School students 1937-38
• Hurricane Classes 1938 - 1941
• Hurricane Basketball Teams 1938 - 1942
• Hurricane Senior Classes of the 1940's and Bus Drivers 1946
• Hurricane Classes From the Late 1940s
• Hurricane Sports, 1954 - 1948
• Randolph School 1925 and 1936
• Randolph 1925 Girls Basketball Team
• Rosalba School:  Can you identify this picture?
• Unknown Toccopola Family:  Can you identify this family?  Possible surnames Evans, New, Gray, Nelson, Williams
• Toccopola

WPA HISTORY OF
PONTOTOC COUNTY

• Introduction
• Contents
  Chapter I:  FORMATION
  Historical Background
  Shape, Size, Boundaries
  Population
  Physiognomy
  Significance of Name
  (not available)
  County Seat
  Old Settlements
  Old Landmarks
  Interviews
  Pioneer Families
  Chapter I References and Bibliography
  
• Chapter II:  TOPOGRAPHY
  Watersheds
  Soil Types
  Elevation
  Water Supply
  References and Bibliography
  
• Chapter III: SOILS AND MINERALS
  Types and Characteristics
  Flatwoods Area
  Productivity
  Soil Series
  Non-Metallic Minerals
  Clays, Bauxites
  Physiographic Regions
  Ores in County
  Rock Quarry
  Water Supply
  References and Bibliography
  
• Chapter IV:  FLORA
  Economic Value of Forests
  Handling the Timber
  Conservation
  Historic Trees
  Freak and Unusual Trees
  Fruit Bearing Trees
  Flowering Trees
  Forest Trees
  Flowers
  References and Bibliography

  
  Chapter V:  INDIANS
  A Legend of Pontotoc
  Tribes;  Customs and
  Characteristics
  Prominent Indians of the Past
  Christianity for the Indians
  Mounds
  Indian Landmarks
  D'Artaguette's Battle
  The Battle of Akia
  Distinguished Pontotoc
  Indians
  References and Bibliography

  
  
• Chapter VI:  ANTEBELLUM DAYS
  Homes on the Indian Trail
  This completes the first 182 pages of the history, which is several hundred pages long. 
  This portion of the WPA history was transcribed by PAM GIBBS, Previous Coordinator. Her work is much appreciated by Present coordinator! You may contact her at the below listed addresses.  PAM GIBBS,
  pamsgenealogy@bellsouth.net