Welcome to the MSGenWeb Tippah County Page.  We provide free information for you to discover and add to your your family tree.  Check the links below to find information on your Tippah County Ancestors.
 
   Recent Additions for Tippah Research

On Shiloh's Battle Ground
 A letter by Sallie Murry Falkner written about her visit to the new military park at Shiloh in 1897.

Where Was Colonel Falkner Shot? 
Travel Back in time with Professor Jack D. Elliott, Jr., as he examines 19th century land records to discover the truth about where the Old Colonel was shot. 

History and Memories of Tippah County Communities
Including personal accounts and pictures, new information added weekly! 
Please send in additions to this new project!


  Thanks to some wonderful local volunteers, Tippah County is very well represented on Find A Grave!

Search for cemetery records in Tippah County, MS at by entering a surname and clicking search: Tippah County, MS (27,090 names) All of Find A Grave (168.2 million names) Restrict search to Surname

Tippah County is located in the northeast corner of the state. It is bordered by Alcorn, Benton, Union, and Prentiss Counties in Mississippi and Hardeman County, in Tennessee. Tippah County was established  in February 9, 1836, and it is one of 10 counties created by the Chickasaw Cession.  In 1870, the reconstructionist government divided the county.  Parts that were once Tippah County now belong to Union, Prentiss, Benton, and Alcorn Counties.  If you have information that you think would be beneficial to this page, please send it in.

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The links below try to capture the history of the first 100 years of Tippah County's existence.  The searchable data exist because we are fortunate to have wonderful volunteers dedicated to making Tippah County the most useful site of it's kind on the Internet.
If you would like to contribute your information to this page, please let me know.

• 1837 Tax List of Property Owners in Tippah County
• 1840 and 1850 Census Records for Tippah County
• 1860 Census Records - Tippah County
• 1870 Census Records -Including all of old Tippah 
• 1866 State Census - Tippah County
• 1900 Census Records - Tippah County
• 1910 Census Records - Tippah County
• African American Information 
• Bible Records-  please submit yours!
• Cemetery Locations
• Cemetery Locations African American Cemeteries
  
• Cemetery Map  Created by MSGENWEB
  
• Cemetery Records - Gravestones
• Confederate Gravestones Located in Tippah County
  
• Church Records
• Death Notices
• Deeds - Book D
• Ladies of the Michigan Settlement
• Letters Left at the Ripley Post Office 1844
• Land Patents
• Map of Tippah County Showing the original boundaries
  
• Marriage Records  1836 - 1858  Reconstructed from personal records.
• Marriage Records 1858 - 1925
• Charles Terry Diary  -1850's diary of life in Salem, MS
• James S. Terry Diary -1850's diary of life in Salem, MS and LaGrange, TN
• Francis Terry Leak Papers - Link to UNC Southern Historical Collection
  
• Poor House Records- 1870 Tippah County Poor House
• Samuel A. Agnew Diary  a Civil War Journal
• Stubbs Cemetery -a forgotten ante-bellum cemetery
• Tippah County Connecting Families  **Valuable resource!
• Tippah County Confederate Pages    **Information on Tippah Soldiers!
• Tippah County Information in the USGENWEB archives
  

 

Post or View a Query, Deed, Obituary, Will or Pension File Now! To access the different types of posting boards on Ancestry.com use the drop down menu titled "View Message Type."  All posting will be gatewayed to the Tippah County mailing list for all subscribers to view. Surnames A-L Surnames M-Z QueriesView Archived Queries pre 1999 Photos of Tippah County Lookups County Research Facilities Mid South Civil War Links Tippah County Family Pages Tippah County Heritage Museum 1907 Sentinel Issue Life in the early 1900's Old Map Collection of Tippah, Union and Pontotoc Counties Mississippi Vital Records Information Mississippi  County Links - MSGENWEB The Chickasaw Nation MSGenWeb Archives   Mississippi Genealogy and Notes  Blog Spot! Mississippi Census Records at CensusFinder.com Mississippi Libraries Online Pioneer Publishing Company Lots of Mississippi books to purchase! Southeast Genealogy Online - Mississippi Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness   Your comments and suggestions are welcome. If you know of a link that would be helpful to Tippah County Researchers please send me a note.  Due to time constraints, I do not have time to do any research for you myself.  Please request a membership to the Tippah County Genealogy Facebook Page to post queries for help from other Tippah Researchers.  If you see mistakes in data on these pages please send me a personal email and I will gladly correct them.

 

Graphics for this page created by our Tippah County Angel,  Dave Wall. Thomas David Wall, Jr. February 21, 1944- September 4, 2000 This site is dedicated to W. Fred Cox Tippah County Confederate Pages Coordinator and dedicated volunteer for Tippah County Genealogy July 27, 1942- June 11, 2006 Page Updated: May 27, 2020 Melissa McCoy-Bell Tippah County MSGENWEB Coordinator MSGENWEB State Coordinator: Jeff Kemp Assistant State Coordinator:  Denise Wells © 1997-2020, by Melissa McCoy-Bell.  All rights reserved.