Patricia N Edwards

Jasper County was created December 23, 1833 from Choctaw Indian lands acquired through the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek.

Covington County, Mississippi was created on January 5, 1819.

Johannes Hunziger immigrated from Germany (via Rotterdam) to land near Allentown, Northampton (now Lehigh) County, Pennsylvania in 1849. His son, Johann Theobold Hunsucker, and his family moved about 1773 to land in what is now Catawba County, North Carolina. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Illinois, Virginia, West Virginia, Georgia, Texas, Mississippi, California, Oregon and elsewhere. Includes records of possible ancestors in...

Includes information from a book of "Confederate Pension Applications" from the Covington County Courthouse, which contains much information of genealogical value; material collected for the United Confederate Veterans Camps and kept in Wayne County; and rosters of companies formed in Jones County, plus transcriptions of interviews with old Confederate veterans.

The 1890 census burned in the Commerce Department in Washington D.C. A few counties and a few states survived the fire, but none for Mississippi. Therefore, these newspaper abstracts from 1890-1899 for Jones County, Mississippi may help to provide: makeshift census, community information of the day to day life, vital statistics for the community members.

The WPA records in this book are materials for county histories collected in the 1930s by the Works Progress Administration. They include: tax lists, newspaper notices, Perry County WPA source material, muster lists, voting list, teachers list.

Contains some listing of the Civil War, history on the county, Spanish American War, World War I, education, church history, professional and civic leaders.