If you got this more than once, please excuse! Everyone that contacts me regularly please note: After October 1, this telepak email address will not work! New Email address is: anniegms@bellsouth.net I got my DSL! Ann Allen Geoghegan AKA "AnnieG" Researching Jefferson & Franklin County, MS I wasn't born in MS but I got here as quick as I could!

Looking for descendants or contacts to this Family. Thanks, Elnora Frances Cook-Wyrick 1 Able Cook b: Abt. 1792 in (?)GA d: Bef.1823 in Jefferson Co., MS . +Rebecca Patterson m: 05 Dec 1816 in Jefferson Co., MS ... 2 (?) John W Cook b: 1816-20 in Jefferson Co., MS ....... +Julia Z Unknown ........ 3 (?) Louisa Josephine Cook b: 1844 in Jefferson Co., MS ............ +William Goodson b: 1834 in Jefferson Co., MS m: 20 March 1861 in Jefferson Co., MS ........ 3 Martha Cook b: Abt. 1845 ........ 3 John Cook b: Abt. 1848 *2nd Wife of Able Cook: . +Harriett Unknown d: 1850 - 1860 in Jefferson Co., MS m: Bef. 1823 ... 2 James M Cook b: 1820 in Jefferson Co., MS ... 2 Jefferson W Cook b:1821-25 in Jefferson Co., MS d: 11 August 1868 in Beinville Parish, LA ....... +Samantha E Renfro b: 1840-42 in MS d: 1885-98 in (?) Angelina Co., TX m: 20 November 1856 in Copiah Co., MS Father: ........ 3 Mark (?Whitfield) Cook b: 19 June 1858 in (?) Jefferson Co., MS d: 23 August 1942 in Angelina Co., TX Burial: Prairie Grove Cem., Angelina Co., TX ............ +Martha Ann Unknown b: October 1868 in TX m: Bef. 1883 ........ 3 Harriet Cook b: 1860 in LA ............ +(?) Joseph Furgason b: Abt. 1857 in Tennessee ........ 3 Susan Cordelia Cook b: 07 Jan 1864 in LA d: 23 Sept 1938 in Angelina Co., TX ............ +George R. Warner b: 20 July 1856 in LA d: 27 Aug 1948 in Angelina Co., TX m: 02 September 1883 in Angelina Co., TX ........ 3 Alice Cook b: 1865 in LA d: 1935 in (?) Angelina Co., TX ............ +Byron Walker McClendon b: 1864 in TX d: 1941 in (?) Angelina Co., TX m: 23 Dec 1886 in Angelina Co., TX

Added am 1839 Plat map of Jefferson County found by Bruce D. Liddell. If anyone knows of any biographies of people in Jefferson County, I would really like to have them to post! Especially General Thomas Hinds! AnnieG Researching Jefferson & Franklin County, MS I wasn't born in MS but I got here as quick as I could!

http://www.rootsweb.com/~msjeffe2/aframerican.htm ----- Original Message ----- Where is this information located? ----- Original Message ----- > August 31, 2003 - Added The 1869 Freedmen Tax Roll - copied by Ann Brown in 1977 from the Jefferson County Tax Records. Also added the 1830 Free People of Color and 1850 Free People of Color from the Jefferson County Census. This was also compiled and contributed by Ann Brown. Should be a big boost for African-American Research in Jefferson County! Thanks, Ann > > > AnnieG

Where is this information located? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann Allen Geoghegan" <annieg@telepak.net> To: <> Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 7:33 PM Subject: [MSJEFFER-L] What's New? Correction! > August 31, 2003 - Added The 1869 Freedmen Tax Roll - copied by Ann Brown in 1977 from the Jefferson County Tax Records. Also added the 1830 Free People of Color and 1850 Free People of Color from the Jefferson County Census. This was also compiled and contributed by Ann Brown. Should be a big boost for African-American Research in Jefferson County! Thanks, Ann > > > AnnieG > Researching Jefferson & Franklin County, MS > I wasn't born in MS but I got here as quick as I could! > > ______________________________

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Keith-Bradford Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EJB.2ACE/560 Message Board Post: Alexander Keith, who served inthe Revolutionary War died in Jefferson Co.,Miss on 7 Feb 1822. Can anyone tell me where in Jefferson County, MS he is buried?

The Facts Unravel #3 Janice Stevens Rice recently transcribed and posted the 1820 Jefferson County Census, the first U.S. Decennial Census to include the state of Mississippi. (The 1810 Census returns for Mississippi Territory have not survived.) http://www.us-census.org/states/mississippi/j-ms.htm#Jefferson ftp://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/ms/jefferson/1820/pg0050.txt Both addresses lead to the same place, current summer 2003. THANK YOU, Janice, for your hard work and generosity. My own ancestors appear on every U.S. Census from 1790 to the present. This is no great distinction, shared by perhaps the majority of Americans, but it has needled me to unravel the facts behind every Census. And the Fact-with-a-capital-F is the political nature of the process, starting when politically-divided Congress passes the laws defining each Census. The first Census in 1790 was taken for three purposes. Politically, the totals apportioned votes in the House of Representatives among the states. Financially, each state owed Federal taxes in the same proportion. Militarily, the Census counted free white males 16 and over, the traditional source of "militia" (muh-LISH-uh) or part-time soldiers. Then and later the politically-appointed enumerators tried for accurate totals, but didn't worry much with individual details. The 1800, 1810, and 1820 Censuses counted people by "age cohorts" based on the requirements of the Militia Act of 1798. The new United States decided, against all logic and experience, that local folks could defend Freedom better than a professional Army and Navy. (Maybe they were right, given the frequency of military takeovers in new countries today.) After nine years of wrangling Congress in 1798 passed the Militia Act requiring every able-bodied white male over 16 and under 45 to lift up musket, pike or saber when the bugle called. The Secretary of War allocated manpower quotas to each state, and that's where the Census numbers came in. The 1820 Census for the first time picked up two political issues, the Tariff and the Slave Trade (below.) Since then additions have multiplied. Perhaps the most blatant example is the count of civil ("professional") engineers in 1840. Congress wanted to cut West Point funding. Sylvanus Thayer got this number included to prove the need for more USMA-educated civil engineers. The Federal Court system managed the 1820 Census, and the enumerators, all men, were sworn as Assistant U.S. Marshals giving them legal protection and authority. In most districts each census taker supplied his own pens, ink and paper, with which he copied the lines and columns from a master form. Many enumerators transcribed their results in alphabetical order, perhaps to create polished reports from informal notes. The "first Monday in August" 07-Aug-1820 was official enumeration day. Every person alive on that day was to be counted. The actual count took 13 months, August 1820 to August 1821. See instructions for enumerators in Maine at http://www.upperstjohn.com/1820/instructions.htm address current summer 2003. Each "dwelling house or . . . family" got one line. The first column was the name of the head of household or head of family, "master, mistress, steward, overseer, or other principal person therein." Therein followed six age cohort columns for free white males: -- Little boys 0 to 9, children -- Boys 10 to 15, available for militia before next census -- ** Young men "between 16 and 18," a typical 2-year "draft pool" -- Young men 16-25, primary militia pool -- Adult men 26-44, secondary militia pool -- Old men 45+, not liable for militia service ** This column is the joker in the deck. All the other age cohorts were symmetric, the same for males and females. These guys were ALSO counted in the 16-25 column. The wording invited confusion on whether or not to include 18 year olds. Next, five age cohort columns for free white females (who produced future soldiers): -- Little girls 0 to 9, children -- Girls 10 to 15, marriageable before next census -- Young women 16-25, prime marriage age -- Adult women 26-44, prime childbearing age -- Old women 45+, past childbearing The next column, "foreigners not naturalized," counted aliens not subject to militia service. These people were ALSO counted under their respective age cohorts, free white above or free "colored" below. The next three columns counted the number of people engaged in agriculture, commerce, and manufacture. These people were also counted under their age cohorts. THE perennial issue in Congress was the Tariff or tax on imports, the main source of Federal revenue. In general, farmers and merchants wanted a low tariff or "free trade" and manufacturers wanted a high tariff "to protect jobs." The next sixteen columns counted non-white or "colored" people, first slave males by age cohort: -- Children 0-13 -- Young adults 14-25 -- Adults 26-44 -- Elders 45+ and the same cohorts for slave females, free colored males and free colored females. Another recent issue before Congress called for reopening the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, illegal since 1807. The census totals argued that current slaves produced enough slave babies to meet demand, and closed the debate. For Congressional representation, every five slaves counted as three persons. This strange fraction arose from a compromise among the delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1788. The free states wanted NO slaves counted, while the slave states wanted ALL slaves included. Several states were ready to walk out of the Convention when James Monroe dredged up an old "poll" or head tax (tax per person) from colonial Virginia, an earlier compromise that taxed free people at full rate and slaves at 3/5ths of that rate. Late one night the exhausted delegates fell on this fraction like starving Israelites on manna, voted it, then went home to bed. The final column in 1820 counted "all other persons, except Indians not taxed"; aboriginals were supposedly counted under tribal censuses. Has anyone out there ever seen a number in this column? In closing, a cautionary tale. The U.S. Census is a great help for hunting ancestors, but it's just as fallible as the humans involved. At the Liddell household in 1860, the census taker caught stepfather Thomas C. Brown, age 60, during a "senior moment." Brown got the ages wrong for every (!) white person except himself, the names wrong on most, and turned my 12-year-old great-grandfather into a girl. Brown's Slave Schedules are impossible to connect with individual slaves known to be present. The totals for white people and black people were correct, but little else. This brickwall baffled two generations of family researchers. (Ask me about the most unusual Census entry I've seen. Subject matter may offend.) Bruce D. Liddell, BDLiddell@yahoo.com Birmingham AL, 31-Aug-2003 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

August 31, 2003 - Added The 1869 Freedmen Tax Roll - copied by Ann Brown in 1977 from the Jefferson County Tax Records. Also added the 1830 Free People of Color and 1850 Free People of Color from the Jefferson County Census. This was also compiled and contributed by Ann Brown. Should be a big boost for African-American Research in Jefferson County! Thanks, Ann AnnieG Researching Jefferson & Franklin County, MS I wasn't born in MS but I got here as quick as I could!

Benjamin A. Bullen was my husband's 3G Uncle. If you would like to compare notes contact me at: annieg@telepak.net Ann Allen Geoghegan CC Jefferson County MSGenWeb Project ----- Original Message ----- From: pdenicereed@aol.com To: MSJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2003 2:07 PM Subject: [MSJEFFER-L] Bullen in Jefferson County, Mississippi This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Russell, Mayberry, Bullen, Bolls, Stewart, Millsaps Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EJB.2ACE/546 Message Board Post: Am looking for the parents of Benjamin A. Bullen who married Mary Elizabeth Mayberry, 6 May 1842. Also looking for any siblings, children, or burial information.Mary's parents were Abraham Mayberry and Lucretia Bolls. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thank you, Denice ==== MSJEFFER Mailing List ==== "I collect dead relatives! And sometimes a LIVE cousin!

What's New August 31, 2003 - Added The 1869 Freedmen Tax Roll - copied by Ann Brown in 1977 from the Jefferson County Tax Records. Should be a big boost for African-American Research in Jefferson County! Thanks, Ann P.S. Ellen would you pass this on to Dorian? AnnieG Researching Jefferson & Franklin County, MS I wasn't born in MS but I got here as quick as I could! The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those who got there first!

These records begin in VA in 1608, with the execution of George Kendall for "spying/espionage" and go to 1987. To say that the early records are fascinating is an understatement (you just don't run into many executions for piracy or witchcraft anymore). But they have value for family researchers, too. Even if you don't have reason to suspect that any of your ancestors were "outlaws," there are records of executions for espionage & treason, especially important during the American Revolution and the Civil War, and there are many records of executions for "slave revolts," which might be helpful to African-American researchers. Be patient, it takes a few minutes to download and you'll need a reader, such as an Acrobat. http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/ESPYdate.pdf Nancy, researching: Baldridge, Cain, Courtney, Curtis, Carmichael, Dawkins, Doty, Garmon, Garrett, Jackson, McCormick, Matthews, Osborne, Stampley, Stringer, Warren.......and many more! 12th MS Inf; 42nd GA Inf www.geocities.com/twincousin2334 www.thepastwhispers.com

Here is a letter from Fannie Bowen, born 1830, written from Union Church in 1857 online here that mention a number of Mississippi folks: http://web.ask.com/redir?bpg=http%3a%2f%2fweb.ask.com%2fweb%3fq%3dWho%2bwas%2b%2522Dr.%2bC.%2bC.%2bCampbell%2522%253f%26o%3d0%26page%3d1&q=Who+was+%22Dr.+C.+C.+Campbell%22%3f&u=http%3a%2f%2ftm.wc.ask.com%2fr%3ft%3dan%26s%3da%26uid%3d242895d3742895d37%26sid%3d1A2AF06108308A4F3%26qid%3dC69BD0A4E5C6914C9E1FE682960E09D3%26io%3d1%26sv%3dza5cb0dd8%26ask%3dWho%2bwas%2b%2522Dr.%2bC.%2bC.%2bCampbell%2522%253f%26uip%3d42895d37%26en%3dte%26eo%3d-100%26pt%3dAdams%2bCounty%252c%2bMS%2bPhysicians%26ac%3d24%26qs%3d0%26pg%3d1%26u%3dhttp%3a%2f%2fwww.natchezbelle.org%2fadams-ind%2fdoc_e_m.htm&s=a&bu=http%3a%2f%2fwww.natchezbelle.org%2fadams-ind%2fdoc_e_m.htm Sue Moore

Hi I would like to know all I can about Samuel Scott. I have Scotts from Jefferson Co., but don't know if they are connected. India J. Wolf IWolf54197@aol.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EJB.2ACE/559 Message Board Post: What exactly do you wish to know about Mr. Scott? I have done some research on Mr. Scott as he was the slave holder of my husbands family.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bryant Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EJB.2ACE/334.1 Message Board Post: LaVerne, I'm looking for information on William Monroe Bryant from AL. He had several children by his first wife, Mary Elizabeth Lakey. My great grandfather (Felix Thomas Bryant) was one of those children. Supposedly, he left Mary and his children and moved to Mississippi. Do you have any other information on your William Monroe that you could share? Thanks!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EJB.2ACE/104.1 Message Board Post: Camile Olga Edwards please get in touch with me I might have a little more inormation for you. We need to hear fome one another. I tried to write to you the other week in Huntsville, Al but the letter came back Looking to hearing from you soon Ann Marie Anderson Fayette, Miss.

Hi everybody, A lady who visited my website sent this to me, after seeing the information about Union Church. I was very excited to read this letter, because I've been trying to connect my g-g-grandfather, Isaac Garrett, to another family from Sumter for ages. He came (alone, as far as I know) from Sumter District, SC in the mid-1840's. I've always suspected he shared his ties to Sumter with someone who was already at Union Church when he arrived, but these are the first families I've found who were, also, from that district. Anyway, it's my favorite kind of letter, nice and chatty! Enjoy. Nancy P.S. I believe some of you may have a connection to the Bowens? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Below is a letter from Frances (Fannie) Farmer Bowen (daughter of William Henry [1794-?] and Eliza Kimbrough Brockington Bowen) who was born in Sumter, SC, c 1830. Eliza's mother was Penelope Benton Brockington Bishop [Feb 1800-?], the wife of Dr Jacques Bishop, after whom Bishopville, SC. was named. Fannie sent the letter to her cousin Penelope "Neppie" Vermelle Bowen (1836-1918). Neppie lived all of her life in and married Clinton Larkin Freeman in Sumter. I will put my notes in brackets in the text. The original of this letter is in the possession of Mrs. Nancy Parks of Augusta, GA. If you too are researching any of these surnames, please get in touch with Marcia F. Bowen-Astley Union Church, March 15, 1857 My Dear Cousin: As James has just received a letter from Albert [possibly the son of her sister Penelope Bowen Dixon--Mrs John Dixon; if so, Albert was killed in the second Battle of Manassas. His mother died three years later in 1868] and he said that you wished me to write to you, there has been a great change in our family since I saw you last, and I expect that there has been the same with yours. I have enjoyed myself finely in some respects and in others I have not; in losing my sister was a great trial of my life. [Henrietta Bowen Hurst, wife of Wm Hurst, was Fannie's younger sister, who died in 1851 at the age of 17, in the Mississippi home of Dr C.C. Campbell. Campbell also came from Sumter and was married to Fannie's deceased eldest sister, Louisa.] I do not think that I have been as happy as before still I know that she is a great deal better off. We have her babe and he is a good sized child now. His Pa has married again, he speaks of taking his child away from us, but Papa says that he will not give him up now....Ma [Eliza K.B. Bowen] has gone with John [Fannie's brother?] on one of his appointments today, they may not return tonight. Ma has been in bad health for a long time, but I believe that she has improved within the last two weeks. She suffers a great deal from headache and rising in her head. The Dr. advised her to blister her neck and she did it and I think it has helped her. Papa's health has not been very good for some time, he too is getting old and infirm, so can't expect them to be well all the time. They will soon be gone. It makes me feel so bad to think that they can't live many more years at best although they may out live us. The young die as well as the old. When I think of my bye gone days, how happy I have been among my relatives. I almost take the blues to think that I never will see all my kindred again and those happy moments are gone forever. I almost wish that I was a child again. I think now how different I would live. I never would leave my happy old home and kindred for all the gold in California. I wish that I was back in Carolina. I think that I would stay there, that is if Ma, Pa & brothers would go too. I don't believe that I could be content without them. I shall try to stay with Ma & Pa while they live. After their deaths I know that we will all be scattered. This is a subject that I do not like to dwell on, so I shall leave it. Jimmy is grown, you would not know him if you were to see him; Addy is very tall, he is 6 feet and a very handsome man. Henry is not quite as tall as I am. He will be before many years, you would not know any of us. Oh Neppy how I do wish to see you all. I hope I shall see you all again. I wish that you would send me your likeness, I have almost forgotten how you look. You must answer this as soon as you get it and tell me all the news, as I like to hear any and every thing that happens in my native land. Tell me who is married and who you are going to marry and when; and when I find the young man that I like I will let you know and invite you and Eliza to wait on me, so you may hold yourself in readiness. Tell me how many children Aunt Charlotte [Neppie's mother was Charlotte Crosswell Bowen who married Howell Stuckey, sometime after the 1840 death of her first husband, James Spearman Bowen.] has and the news of her health and such, and how Cousin John [John Henry Bowen 1827-1892] is and Cousin Dud (William Dudley Bowen 1828-1915] and if they are married and what they are doing; and Cousin Sisuing [name unclear] if he is grown; now when you answer this be sure to answer all my questions. When you write to your brothers [in addition to John and William, there was James Frierson Bowen who was born in 1838] or see them tell them that I wish them to write to me and I will be sure to answer them. I have just received a letter from Cousin Rebecca Brockington [Rebecca, Caroline, and Mary Jane are probably the children of William Brockington, her Mother's brother,] which I must answer before many days. Uncle Edward's family were all well the last that I heard from them. Also, Uncle Jack's family, his girls are all married and have families, except Emada. She is single yet. Caroline [M.B. Brockington?] and Mary Jane [Brockington] are in Austin, Texas. Francis Spruce, his daughter, and Emma are in Monticello. Caroline married a man named George Grey and Mary Jane a Hamilton. Uncle Ed has had two married. Frances married Hubert and died & he is married again, & Dr Bowen and ...[name illegible] they have had two children. Bob is grown, he is studying law. Ed is nearly grown & Martha is also.... I believe that I have given you all the news that is worth relating, so I believe that I shall close for the present. My fingers are cold and I can hardly write, so no more at present. Give my respects to Aunt Charlotte and sister [Penelope Bowen Dixon] and her family when you see them; also, to your brothers and my brothers [as far as we know, Fannie's brothers were William B., John, Jacques B., and James L.] when you see them or write to them. I remain as ever your loving Cousin until death. Write to me soon, Frances Bowen P.S. When you write, direct your letter to Union Church, Jefferson County, Mississippi. Ma & Pa wishes to be remembered to Aunt C. & the rest, also the boys all join with me in love to you and all, no more but your cousin, Fannie Bowen Nancy Websites: www.geocities.com/twincousin2334 www.thepastwhispers.com List Admin.: USCW-Seven_Pines; Carmichael; Cates; Fairley; Godbold; OldWestOutlaws&IndianScouts; Message Board Admin.: Missouri Civil War; Fairley; Godbold; Richmond County, NC; Caithness, Scotland

Apparently John Comfort was out of a job as Jimmerson Liddell's overseer after Jimmerson died. In the 1860 Jefferson County Census he was shown as a Carpenter living in the household of John Currie (Household #587 on page 656) in Union Church, MS. His family is not shown. This is a little unusual since he married Rebecca Ann Stephens in Jefferson County on 24 Mar 1858. She was a daughter of Daniel Holland Stephens and Rutha Cater. Perhaps Rebecca may have been staying with her parents or other family members in the vicinity of Dennis Crossroads at the time of the 1860 census. I have an idea that their first child was Callier S. Comfort who married Albert Shaw Killingsworth a son of Wm Anderson Killingsworth and Nancy Ann Shaw Killingsworth. Callier may have died a couple of years after her marriage from problems associated with childbirth. Her remains were returned from Obediah Springs, AR for burial in the Stephens Cemetery. Nancy Ann Shaw Killingsworth was a daughter of Thompson B. and Mary Shaw who were the owners of Richmond Hill Plantation. I'm not sure if T.B. & Mary Shaw also owned Indigo Plantation or if their descendants purchased it later. Indeed Ann Brown is correct that old Mr. William Claude Millsaps operated both plantations as one for years. I have a postcard written in the late '40s or maybe early '50s from Mr. Claude to my mother inviting her to come out from Natchez to visit on a Sunday and it included instructions on how to get from Fayette to Richmond Hill. I understand that there are indeed a couple of old houses which are close to the Richmond Hill Plantation house and they may be on land which was Indigo Plantation. One of the current owners of part of what was Indigo Plantation has mentioned that in fairly recent times one of these houses was occupied by a person named Tom and the other may have been used as a deer lodge. Tony Miller Anebec@aol.com wrote: > Bruce, may I add my two cents worth. > > Tony Miller indicates that Jimmerson Liddell lived in # 333 and > Richmond Hill was # 334 . Then item was that Jimmerson Liddell had > an Overseer by the name of Comfort. and they lived at # 335 > > Well, the Comforts owned land on the southeast corner of Dennis Cross > Roads. Those of you who have the Jefferson County Cemetery book Vol > I, look at the Stephens Cemetery. There you will find the sthat were > from that family. They had a son named Trofmoc Comfort (which is > Comfrot spelled backwards) > Also there was an Exermina Comfort. > > The old Comfort house was just destroyed about 20- 25 years ago. > Miz Exermina used to ride into Red Lick in a buggy drawn by one horse > ... or so my inlaws remembered. > > Ann Brown

Hi folks, I am in the process of updating Jefferson MSGenWeb! If you notice any strange goings-on or something doesn't work, let me know right away! We are just getting a little too large and some things needed to be streamlined to make the research easier! I didn't make any drastic changes like graphics or anything, just reorganized the Site Index onto a separate page and organized it a little. Comments Welcome! Annie Researching Jefferson & Franklin County, MS I wasn't born in MS but I got here as quick as I could! The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those who got there first!

Ann Brown - (1850 Census info supplied by Tony Miller.) Dwelling #333, Jimerson Liddell and family. #334, Thompson B. Shaw and family, Richmond Hill Plantation. (Tony's ancestor.) #335, J. R. Comfort single, overseer, age 25 born KY. Does this mean they were adjacent neighbors, or did the census taker zigzag back and forth? My patchy records don't show a name for the Liddell place. Personally, if I owned 750 acres (1 square mile = 640 acres) I'd sure give it a name. "Bruce's Kingdom." Grin. Jimerson Liddell was born in NYC 1800, lived in Plattsburgh NY and Pittsburgh PA before moving to Jefferson Co. MS about 1828. Nothing in his history suggests any connection with Indigo, a dye-plant grown in coastal SC and GA. Until long-staple cotton arrived about 1810-1820, indigo, tobacco, rice and hemp were the top exports from the South, and Natchez District was tobacco country. "Those are my theories. If you don't like them, I have others." (Apologies to Groucho Marx.) Bruce D. Liddell, BDLiddell@yahoo.com --- Anebec@aol.com wrote: > Now I am curious about Jimmerson Lidell. On the > other side of the Richmond > Hill Plantation was a plantation known as Indigo. I > wonder if that was > Jimmersons. The Milsaps owned it when I came here. > Indigo and Richmond Hill were > managed as one plantation. > > That is my story and I'm sticking to it. > > Ann B.I __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com