Welcome to Leake County MS
History and Genealogy
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Mississippi Genealogy Trails
a part of Genealogy Trails
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Your state host is Gene Phillips
Please send any data submissions to me. I will upload them as soon as possible.

We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as it can be. If you are interested in joining Genealogy Trails, view our Volunteer Page for further information..
(Enough knowledge to make a basic webpage and a desire to transcribe data is required)

Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data for the free use of all researchers.

We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as it can be. If you are interested in joining Genealogy Trails, view our
Volunteer Page for further information..
(Enough knowledge to make a basic webpage and a desire to transcribe data is required)

We'll be doing the best we can to create a website that you will find helpful, useful and meaningful as you trace the trails of your ancestors through Leake County until a permanent host can be found.
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We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for folks.
All data we come across will be added to this site.
We thank you for visiting and hope you'll come back again to view the updates we make to this site.


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If you can't be a County Host, you can still be a great deal of help. We need volunteers who will find interesting Leake County documents to transcribe and email to us. We are looking for the "raw data" information such as Biographies, Deaths, Births, Marriages and Obituaries. There will be the native Indian history of the area that will be of interest to a lot of people, as well as the Pioneer Families of the county
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Founded in 1833, Leake County is named for Walter Leake, the Governor of Mississippi from 1822 to 1825. Its county seat is Carthage

Communities
Carthage (City)
Lena (Town)
Sebastopol (a town mostly in Scott County)
Walnut Grove (Town)
Thomastown (Village)
Redwater (CDP)
Standing Pine (CDP)

* Unincorporated places
Conway -- Coosa -- Dowell -- Edinburg -- Estesmill -- Freeny -- Gill -- Good Hope -- Hopoca -- Madden -- Marydell -- Ofahoma -- -- Piggtown -- Renfroe -- Remus -- Rosebud -- Saint Ann --Tuscola -- Wiggins


Online Data

Biographies

Births

Cemeteries

WPA Cemetery Listing

Census

Church Histories/Records

County Records

Court Records

Deaths

Family Bibles

History

Marriages

Military

Newspapers

Obituaries

Surnames

Wills/Legal Records 

Website Updates:
18 Oct 2021: Added Caldwell Cemetery
18 Oct 2021: Added Danny Cook Memorial Cemetery
18 Oct 2021: Added Freeny Family Cemetery
18 Oct 2021: Added High Hill AA Cemetery
18 Oct 2021: Added High Hill BC Cemetery
18 Oct 2021: Added Holbrook Cemetery
18 Oct 2021: Added Lena Cemetery
18 Oct 2021: Added Mount Zion Cemetery
18 Oct 2021: Added Mount Zion BC Cemetery
18 Oct 2021: Added Standing Pine.0 Cemetery
18 Oct 2021: Added Wesley Chapel Cemetery
18 Oct 2021: Added Zion COG Cemetery
18 Oct 2021: Updated Pleasant Hill Cemetery
21 Oct 2019: Added Louis Holbrook Howard Biography
28 Feb 2019: Added Guion Q. Hall Biography
03 Apr 2018: Added Charles Carnes Biography
18 Mar 2018: Added James Hamilton Caldwell Biography
29 Jan 2018: Added Ira George Allen Biography
13 Feb 2017: Obituary Added. Added three newspaper articles miscellaneous news.
15 Jan 2017: Added Land Acquisitions names ending in E and F.
29 Aug 2016: Added Land Acquisitions names ending in D. Added misc. news articles. Added news Chickasaw tradition.
04 Jul 2016: Added crime news and death notices.
22 Jun 2016: Completed Land acquisitions for names ending in C. Added land acquisitions index.
15 Jun 2016: Completed 1840-1841 Land acquisitions A-B. Added biographies for Reverend Samuel McKay, Elias James McKay and Columbus Washington Alford. Added history of land acquisition and how land was obtained.
14 Jun 2016: Added Columbus Washington Alford Biography
08 Mar 2016: Land acquisitions 1840-1841 names ending in Ba-Bi. Obituaries for George Roby Edwards, and Wiley S. Mabry. Newspaper gleanings.
14 Sep 2015: Updated list of cities and towns. Added to history description. Land acquisitions 1840-1841 names ending in A
09 Feb 2014: Added William Burks Biography
13 Jan 2014: Added Thomas Burks Biography
23 Aug 2013: Added 1883 Pension List
05 Jun 2012: Added 1890 Veterans Census 2 files
05 Jun 2012: Added Pleasant Hill Cemetery
18 Jul 2009: Added several unincorporated places to list of cities and towns
Jan 2009: News Items: Community, Native American news item; "White Cap" news story; 1850 Mortality Schedule, World War 2 Casualties
Previous Updates: Marriage Announcements, Crime News Story for HUGHES; Cemetery Listing
Jan 2009: News Items: Community, Native American news item; "White Cap" news story; 1850 Mortality Schedule, World War 2 Casualties
Previous Updates:
Marriage Announcements, Crime News Story for HUGHES; Cemetery Listing

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Surrounding Counties
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Attala County (north)
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Neshoba County (east)
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Scott County (south)
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Madison County (west)

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This page last updated on -- 18 Nov 2021


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