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Church and Cemetery Books
Bethany Baptist
Church History by Jim Dawson, which includes the church cemetery list. Contact:
Coker's Chapel Church
History by Jim Dawson, includes membership lists, some marriages, baptisms, register
of pastors, etc. Contact:
History of Liberty
Baptist Church, Sumter County, Alabama by Jim Dawson. Contact:
Ebenezer Baptist
Church Minutes by Jim Dawson. Contact:
Census Records
1870 Census Contact:
1880 Census Index -- heads of household
only. Contact:
1885 School Census, an enumeration of
educable children. This book lists the child's name, age, race,
ward, or beat, and guardian or parent's name. Contact:
Tax Records
1878 Land Roll Tax Book. Contact:
History Books
The First Hundred Years of the Pine
Springs Community of Lauderdale County Mississippi. Contact:
Golden Era Homes of Meridian
by Jim Dawson. Contact:
History of Whynot --Volumes I
and II by James (Jim) Dawson. Contact:
History of Whynot Consolidated
High School 1916-1962 by Jim Dawson. Contact:
Merchants, Tradesmen, and
Manufacturers Financial Condition for Meridian, Mississippi 1921
-- information obtained from the January, 1921 R.G. Dun
Mercantile Agency Reference Book. Published by Jan and Naomi McPeek,
September 2003. Contact:
Jews in Early Mississippi by
Leo and Evelyn Turitz.This book is packed with photos and
names of early Jewish families who settled in Mississippi. There's a
chapter on Meridian families, as well as many other Mississippi
towns including Jackson, Vicksburg, Greenville, Canton, Macon,
Starkville, and many more. Rabbi Turitz lived in Meridian during the
1970s, where he served the Congregation Beth Israel. Contact:
Marriage Records
Lauderdale County
Marriage Record Books -- 1-A
and A-1. Contact:
Family History Books
Descendants of Joseph
Culpepper. Contact:
Descendants of T.H.
Goodwyn by Levin Culpepper. Contact:
Hendersons of Early
Mississippi by Robert Henderson -- a compilation of Mississippi
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