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
• 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
• John Porter and Martha Ann Miears
• John Stewart Cromwell

BOOKS AND LOOKUPS

• Bibliography
• Books For Sale
• Lookups

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

• Antioch Cemetery
• Betts
• Bramlett
• Buckhorn
• Campground
• Cherry Creek
• Chesterville
• Freeman
• Johnson Cemetery (photographs and transcription)
• Old Poplar Springs updated
• Pleasant Grove
• Pontotoc City
• Ridgeway
• **Robbs (Broken Link)
• Troy
• **How to Transcribe A Cemetery
• **Cemetery Surveys as an Eagle Scout Project
• ** Cemetery Records in the State Archives
• You can check here to see whether 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 841
• Pontotoc, Mississippi 38863

HOMEPAGES WITH PONTOTOC COUNTY ROOTS

• **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
• **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.
• **Lambert Genealogy: John Thomas Lambert, Mary Ann Cole, and their twenty one children.
• **Bramblett-Bramlett Information Center: Almost endless variety of information about the Bramlett family in America with many Pontotoc County connections.
• **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 (Broken Link)
• **The Descendants of the Beckley Five
• redirects here.

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

• **Pontotoc County Library
• **Dixie Regional Library System
• Branch Librarian:   Regina Graham
• Staff :  Sarah Luna, Christine Taylor, Nicole Sewell, and Peggy Young
• PHONE(662) 489 - 3960
• FAX (662) 489 - 7777

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

MILITARY RECORDS
see also CIVIL WAR

Jim Leatherwood Wereth 11 Memorial

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.

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    
• *Link to Obituaries in the Tupelo Daily Journal

PHOTOGRAPHS

• Pontotoc Courthouse
• 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
• Algoma School Class of 1894
• Yearbook Cover
• Algoma Then and Now
• Algoma School 1894, 1910, 1948
• 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 at 1995 Reunion
• Algoma Class of 1960
• Algoma Class of 1961
• Algoma Class of 1961 in 5th and 6th grade
• Algoma Class of 1961
• Algoma Class of 1961 Reunion
• Algoma Class of 1961 in Seventh Grade
• Algoma Class of 1961 at Pickwick
• Algoma Class of 1962
• Algoma Class of 1966
• Algoma Class of 1969
• Ferrell School, 1919
• Hurricane School History and Photographs
• Hurricane School Building and History
• 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 1930s
• Hurricane School Faculty in the 1930s
• Hurricane School Students, 1937 - 1938
• Classes 1938 - 1941
• Basketball Teams 1938 - 1942
• Senior Classes of the 1940s
• Classes From the Late 1940s
• Sports, 1954 - 1948
• Randolph
• Randolph 1925 Girls Basketball Team
• 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.  If you have access to a paper or microfilm copy and are willing to make copies to send to me for transcribing, please contact me,  PAM GIBBS,pamsgenealogy@bellsouth.net