Pontotoc County, Mississippi
Genealogy and History

Peggy A. Young, County Coordinator
Marka Bland Baldwin - Assistant County Coordinator
Jeff Kemp - State Coordinator
Denise Wells - Assistant State Coordinator
Tuesday, 16-Apr-2024 17:30:38 CDT

Coordinator's Corner

My name is Peggy A. Young and I'm the Coordinator for Pontotoc County MsGenWeb site. Marka Bland Baldwin is the Assistant Coordinator. Please feel free to contact us if there are questions or the need for more information.
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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
• Swinney Family Bible, Submitted by Ed Corey.
• Wade Shelton Family Bible

BIOGRAPHIES

• Elijah Alexander
• Biography of William Bigham
• Biography of William Elisha Bowen
• 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
• Biography of Stewarts from Georgia
• Biography of Silas Wood
• Henry and Louisa Sullivan
• Thomas and Eliza Reeder Young
• John Porter and Martha Ann Miears, Info and Picture of Smyrna Cemetery
• John Stewart Cromwell

CONTACT INFORMATION

• Research Materials for Pontotoc
• Pontotoc County Historical Society Books & THE TOWN SQUARE POST OFFICE & MUSEUM GIFT SHOP

Browning Funeral Home (Ecru)

Browning Funeral Home (Ecru) Please feel free to contact me if there are questions or the need for more information.

CEMETERY LOCATIONS

• Northeast Map
• Northwest Map
• Southeast Map
• Southwest Map
• Cemetery List

Cemetery Memorials and Maintenance Funds

• Memorials (New Info)

• If you have contact information regarding the care and maintenance of ANY Pontotoc County Cemetery please email me. People frequently write asking who to contact about maintenance services or they are wanting to contribute to their maintenance.

CEMETERY TRANSCRIPTIONS AND LINKS

• Anderson Cemetery
• Antioch Cemetery
• Betts
• Bramlett
• Jesse Hughes Bramlett
  (contribution made by Thomas W. Whitehead)
• Buckhorn Cemetery
• Callaway
• Campground
• Cherry Creek
• Chesterville
• Freeman
• Johnson/Mitchell Cemetery (Photographs and Transcription)
• Oakhill Cemetery (Off Site)
• Old County Line Cemetery (Off Site)(Photograph & Transcription)
• Monroe Mission Presbyterian (Chronological Cemetery Listing)
• Monroe Mission Presbyterian (Cemetery Plot Listing)
• Old Poplar Springs
• Pleasant Grove
• Pontotoc City
• Ridgeway
• Troy

CEMETERY TOMBSTONE PHOTOGRAPHS

• Grave Markers of John and Josie Odle (Oak Forrest)
• Grave Marker of Minnie Coleman Odle (Oak Forrest)
• Grave Marker of John Porter and Martha Miears (Smyrna)

CENSUS RECORDS

• 1837 State Census
• 1840 Census
• 1850 Census in the Pontotoc County Archives
• 1845 State Census
• 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
• Bellevue Baptist Church & History
• Camp Ground Church
• Pontotoc Church of Christ
• Lebanon Presbyterian 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

COMMUNITIES OF PONTOTOC COUNTY, MS

• Communities of Pontotoc County

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)
• Ricky Ferguson
• P.O. Box 209
• Pontotoc, MS 38863
• 662-489-3900, Fax: 489-3940

• CIRCUIT CLERK (Marriage Records)
• Melinda Nowicki
• P.O. Box 428
• Pontotoc, MS 38863
• 662-489-3908, Fax: 489-3940

HISTORIC TOUR OF PONTOTOC COUNTY

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

WEBPAGES/LINKS WITH PONTOTOC COUNTY ROOTS

LETTERS TO, FROM, or ABOUT PONTOTOC COUNTIANS

LEGAL DOCUMENTS, DEEDS, & WILLS

• Jamison Brame Deed
• Last Will and Testament of Joseph Roach
• Summons for Evelyn Evans,1858
• US Congressional Bill Ayres land purchase

LOCAL LIBRARIES

Dixie Regional Library System

MAPS

• Mississippi County Formation Maps 1785-1918, Census Maps 1800 - 1920, Mississippi Antique Maps & Atlases

MARRIAGES

• MSGenWeb Marriage Project
• 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 Museum
• 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!

• Find-A-Grave Nationwide

MISSISSIPPI GENWEB RESOURCES

• MSGenWeb Home Page and County list

NEWSPAPERS

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

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

• Martin-Gillespie Family

• Flanagan-Spencer-England and Arnold Homes (Troy)

• 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

• Sam Garling Family Photo

• 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

• Williams Family

• Syla Ophelia Wood

• Thomas Jackson Wood

ANNOUNCEMENTS

We are as always your best source of Free Genealogy on the Internet!!

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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

• Roberson Hotel
• Streets Scene Pontotoc 1907
• Lochinvar
• Stony Lonesome

Unknown Picture ID
(Work in Progress)

• Henry and Louisa Sullivan

• Unknown Family

• Unknown Grissom Family

• Unknown Subject

• Unknown Photographs from the Photo Album of Maude Hodges Suddoth

• UnKnown Mr & Mrs Castleberry

QUERY ARCHIVE

These are queries that date back to the very beginning of the GenWeb Project. While most of the e-mail addresses are no longer valid, there is very good information in these that might be helpful to someone.
• A B - C - D - F
  - G - H - I - K
  - L - M - N - Q - R -
  S - T - V - W - 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
• Yearbook Cover
• Algoma Then and Now
• Algoma First School 1894

  Old Schools 1910 & 1948

  School Board Pictures

• Algoma School 1948-49 Yearbook Miscellaneous
• Algoma Class of 1948 Yearbook dedication
• Algoma 1947-1948 Faculty and Seniors 1948
• Algoma 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 Girls Basketball 1957
• Algoma Girls Basketball 1958
• Algoma Senior Trip 1958
• Algoma Class of 1958
• Algoma Girls Basketball (Not sure of date)
• Algoma Boy Scouts
• Algoma Second Graders
• Algoma Class of 1959 in First Grade
• Algoma Class of 1959
• Algoma Class of 1959 Reunions (1995, 2009, 2012)
• Algoma Class of 1960
• Algoma Class of 1961 (5th & 6th grade)
• Algoma Class of 1961 (7th Grade)
• Algoma Class of 1961
• Algoma Class of 1961 Reunion 2001
• Algoma Class of 1961 Reunion 2002 at Pickwick
• Algoma Reunion 2003; Hosted by Class of 1961 for Classes of 1960-1961-1962
• Algoma 1961 Class Reunion 2011
• Algoma Reunion 2013; Hosted by Class of 1962 for Classes of 1961-1962-1963
• Algoma 1961 Class Reunion 2016
• Algoma Class of 1962
• Algoma Class of 1966
• Algoma Class of 1969
• Buckhorn School Yearbook
• 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
• Robbs School Student Body 1909 or 1910
• Rosalba School
• Sherman BaseBall Team 1910
• Spights School
• Toccopola School/Community
• Troy Mississippi 1893
• Van Vleet School 1924
• Woodland School 1927-28

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 WPA 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! The is the last contact number I have. PAM GIBBS,
  

World War I Drafts

• World War I Draft (A-B) Registrations

• World War I Draft (C-D) Registrations

• World War I Draft (E-F-G) Registrations

• World War I Draft (H-I-J) Registrations

• World War I Draft (K-L-M) Registrations

• World War I Draft (N-R) Registrations

• World War I Draft (S-T) Registrations

• World War I Draft (U-Z) Registrations