38801 Homes for Sale $165,701; 38863 Homes for Sale $159,248; 39773 Homes for Sale $133,682; 39730 Homes for Sale $115,291; 38851 Homes This transcription includes 56 slaveholders who held 40 or more slaves Farming operations were smaller and a new system known as share-cropping came into being. Nevertheless, Chickasaw Co had a number of churches. U.S. treadmill wheels that snuggles and snorts, puffs and waggles across the fields with multiple plows taggling on afterwards. Residents of Chickasaw Co watched very closely as the war in Europe began in 1914 and escalated. During the 1840s, the rich prairie lands had been settled and improved and the plantation system was well established. ratified the amendment. The first of these private schools was established in Houston around 1842 by Aaron Turman. The state of MS and the county of Chickasaw did not achieve the wealth and culture that they had enjoyed before the war, but they had begun to prosper again. of African Americans were enumerated as free in 1860, with about half of those living in the southern States. of the surname of the slaveholder, can check this list for the surname. Palo Alto declined following the War Between the States. The four raids caused only moderate casualties on both sides; but the county and the Confederacy suffered heavy losses of supplies. * For Abbott & Co, "These Negroes are employed on that division of the Mobile & Ohio Rail Road lying in this County". Before the war's end, almost everything was rationed -- sugar, meat, commercial canned goods, gasoline, tires, shoes, etc. was established to aid the unemployed and indigent, regardless of race, creed or color. Reconstruction left scars on the blacks and whites alike. When Grierson left the Kilgore plantation, he sent a detachment under the command of Colonel Hatch to destroy the railroad. Slaves 100 years of age or older were supposed to be named on the 1860 slave schedule, but there were only 1,570 slaves of corderoy roads were financed by the tolls they charged, from ten cents a head for stock to one dollar for a four to six horse or ox wagon. The school was originally founded as the MS Normal High Two dominant parties in the county were the Democrat and Whig, the Democrat holding the majority. the Confederates broke through Smith's forces and moved about five miles west of the town where they made another stand. The French and British also occupied Chickasaw lands during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Chickasaw Co experienced a drug problem among its young people. Another newspaper, "The Houston Petrel" was established by B. F. Owen in 1857. COUNTY: COUNTY: Adams; Leflore; Alcorn; Lincoln; Amite; Lowndes; Attala; Madison; Benton; Marion; Bolivar; Marshall; Calhoun; Monroe; Carroll; Montgomery; MIGRATION OF FORMER SLAVES: According to U.S. Census data, the 1860 Chickasaw County population included As with other areas, the question of slavery and states rights intensified and politics in Chickasaw Co became heated. William Raspberry, a Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist, grew up in Okolona and graduated from Okolona College High School in 1952. Webster/Chickasaw Co line and continued north through Chickasaw Co on the Natchez Trace. http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/ . All of these newspapers were strong Democrat party supporters. A number of agricultural programs were created at the national level. The second try at the railroad was made in conjunction with Grierson's Raid in April 1863. The property consists Houston : Chickasaw County : MS Sartain's Heritage Properties Located eight tenths of a mile north of Highway 8 on paved County Road 424, this 74.44 acres offers 30 acres of This ladies and gentlemen, is caressingly termed -- a tractor." This procession was led by the "bone barriers" who carried the remains of their ancestors so that they could be buried in their new homeland. held by a total of 646 slaveholders, and those slaveholders have not been included here. FORMAT. D. D. Dendy of the board of Supervisors; R. S. Mitchell, County Agent and George D. Riley, County Superintendent of Education formed a committee and met During the Great Depression, the Civilian Conservation Corps constructed the Natchez Trace Game Area in Chickasaw. and caused him to move east to Okolona. The new county seat was named Houston in honor of the TX hero Major General Sam Houston, a close friend of Pinson's . Under the 1831 Treaty of Pontotoc, these lands became available for purchase from the Chickasaw Tribe and were quickly incorporated into the United States. Chisca and his brother, Chocta, were among the band of Indians said to have descended, or at least are related to the Toltecs of Mexico. 7,338 whites, 1 "free colored" and 9,087 slaves. As a result, dairying became an important industry in the county during World War II. Chickasaw has long been home to Sparta Opry, a live country music show. Webster/Chickasaw Co line and continued north through Chickasaw Co on the Natchez Trace. without a stamped number. County showed such a significant increase. The newspaper was strongly Democrat. There were six lawyers and six doctors in the town. 1870 and 1960, the transcriber did not take into consideration any relevant changes in county boundaries. When Abraham Lincoln was elected president, the county became united in favor of secession. 8. The county was served by several stage lines with rented hacks and carriages in the early days. Later a road was built from Houston to Starkville and the Houston/Hopewell Road was extended to Grenada. Only five years passed between the end of World War II and the beginning of the Korean Conflict. Land for Sale. Houston also had several drug stores. 1930s; the last few years as a private venture. Bynum Mounds take their name from the owner of the land and are classic examples of the burial mounc. A second law passed five days later named John Defacement, Richard Elliot, Thomas Ivy, Thomas Gates and Benjamin Anderson as commissioners for the purpose of organizing the county. soldiers burned the depot and Rose Gate College, which was being used by the Confederate government as a military hospital. for dairy purposes. Discover Calhoun County County Mississippi plantation land for sale. Denominations represented in Okolona during this period were Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Cumberland Presbyterian and Roman Catholic. in Chickasaw County, accounting for 3,222 slaves, or 35% of the County total. Before However, both of these newspapers were short-lived. An The rationale behind this was that the first owners were doctors who frequently made the drug store their headquarters during the day. One outstanding general officer, William Feimster Tucker, was produced. In 1941, war clouds darkened and preparations for defense began in earnest early in the year. A brick building was built where the present day Okolona Elementary School is located and continued operation through the early part of the twentieth century. ancestor was one of the larger slaveholders in the County. These people emigrated to what is now the state of MS by following a magical stick and a white dog. resigned from the U. S. Congress and reversed his position regarding secession, the people of Chickasaw came to support the secession movement. least twelve Spaniards were killed and large numbers of livestock and supplies were destroyed. the Union forces inflicted little permanent damage. The old ante-bellum home was extensively renovated and added to, resulting in a fine, well equipped hospital and was open to all the doctors in the area. Also a number of private homes and public buildings were destroyed and many families lost stock, food and valuables. While only eighty-three residents of Chickasaw County were employed in industry in 1860, its manufacturing sector produced a substantial variety of commodities, including fixed agricultural implements, flour and meal, lumber, boots, carriages, furniture, and saddles and harnesses. In Sept 1930, the rains finally came but were too late. The term "County" is Okolona soon became an important Ten more years passed before Chickasaw Co was again sending young people to southeast Asia. Historians of the period tell that the original Chickasaw Indians were tall, well built people with reddish brown skin, raven black hair, large They proposed to meet and end the Chickasaw "problem" forever. These programs were designed to raise the price of cotton and other farm products by lowering the amount of production. The national moral decline never reached full proportion in the county, but its effects filtered into the area. Their first effort was to organize the farmers to achieve the highest possible food production. The line was extended to Calhoun City and operated into the likely possible places of relocation for colored persons from Chickasaw County, included the following: Georgia, up 80,000 handwriting interpretation questions and inconsistent counting and page numbering methods used by the census Newspaper stories strongly opposed and the state of MS never In 1840 Chickasaw was home to 2,148 free whites, 1 free African American, and 806 slaves. Two efforts were made by the British to improve the government of the Chickasaw nation. the County and the first census page on which they were listed. shipping center for the cotton growers and outstripped Houston as a center of commerce. For the purpose of dying cloth and to use as medicine, bark, berries and other substances were gathered. Soon the stage coaches replaced the horse and rider as the carrier of the In Houston, the school was located on the northwest corner of Madison St. and Starkville Rd. However, the slaves from the larger plantations who had been mistreated by their often left with the Federal troops. Family Research Association of Mississippi, PO Box 13334, Jackson, MS 39236-3334. Local Indians were friendly. The slavery issue significantly changed both parties and eventually destroyed the Whig party. Sharkey ordered a constitutional convention He was seriously wounded twice, but lived through the war and returned to serve his native state in the Legislature. Frank Burkitt, a Populist editor and political figure, was a Chickasaw County native, as was Pauline Orr, an important figure at the Mississippi University for Women. Dr. V. B. Philot was the surgeon in charge. Early newspapers included "The Houston State Advocate", the first county paper. locally owned hospital until 1980 when it was sold to Brookwood Hospital Management Corporation of Birmingham. After the 1875 election in which the Republicans throughout the state were defeated; the losers requested Federal troops to put them in office. This trend intensified during World War II when the county farmers responded to the The county is named for the Chickasaw people, who lived in this area for hundreds of years. The Chickasaw Indians became known as one of the Five Civilized Tribes. Citizen committees were formed to promote the construction of gravel roads throughout the county. 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Orleans County in Louisiana saw an mail. Ohio, up 26,000 (70%); Indiana, up 25,000 (127%); and Kansas up from 265 to 17,000 (6,400%). The Hopewell people were fascinated with death and attached great importance to the manner of burial. They elected J. T Griffin and T. S. Evans, Whigs who had ron on the Union party ticket, as delegates to a state convention held in Jackson to "redress grievances". These two men were of one mind, casting their votes in favor of Commercial use of this information is strictly prohibited without prior permission of the owner. leaving from Houston were all volunteers and was made up of individuals from all parts of the county. As late as the 1880s, blacks were serving in the state legislature; but passage of laws favoring white supremacy, along with economic pressure, eroded their participation in the electoral process. In Okolona, the Federal This line ran from Mobile to Jackson, TN; and connected in Jackson, MS to a line going to New Orleans. Egypt was located on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, south of Okolona, but was an important trade center in the 1850s. 7%. By 1960 Chickasaw Countys population had dropped below 17,000, and almost two-thirds of residents were white. If the ancestor is not on this list, the 1860 slave census microfilm Nestled in the hills of Chickasaw County, MS, these 188.65 acres located in Sections 7 and 8, T13S, R3E, offer both timber and recreational investment opportunities. Chickasaw Co, as other counties throughout the south, was under military rule and the existing governemt was under martial law and enforced by Federal troops. These "general stores" sold a wide variety of goods including hats, boots, shoes, hardware, cutlery, saddles, piece goods, bonnets, jewelry and groceries. Battle founded Okolona College, a black institution in 1902. In a few short years, the county moved from the ox-cart to the automobile to the airplane. [4] Robert Gordon had immigrated to Cotton Gin Port, Mississippi, from Scotland. Items such as Coca Cola and cigarettes were also hard to get; but there were few complaints. Freed slaves, if listed in the next census, in 1870, would have been reported Chickasaw County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The sweet potato industry was begun in the 1930s, but increased greatly during the war years. The troops seized and burned the books on the spot. Turnpikes and SET UP TO SHARE OLD PICTURES. Each former Confederate state was also required to ratify the 14th Amendment of the Constitution which stated that an individual might not be denied the vote because of race, creed, color or previous condition of servitude. of large farms must have resulted in lots of duplication of plantation names. Pontotoc soon afterward. The ladies promoted the sale of Liberty Bonds and worked with the Red Cross preparing "comfort bags" for the departing men and knitting socks and "wristlets". In Chickasaw Co, patriotism The local newspaper, "The Prairie News", was forced to cease publication during the War Between the States, but resumed publication soon after the war. The editor went on to predict this invention would make "the dealer a merchant prince, the farmer an engineer and the plow boy, a mechanic." By 1900 the countys population had grown to almost twenty thousand, and in 1909 the county constructed Mississippis first Carnegie Library in Houston. Those selected in this election were: Richard L. Aycock, sheriff; George Hoyle, judge of probate; Charles Graeff, clerk of probate and police court; Hezekiah Goode, clerk of Circuit Court; Gilbert Anderson, tax assessor and collector; Claiborne Williams, coroner; William Kreider, county treasurer and Thomas Williams, county surveyor. men of CCC was the Natchez Trace Game Area. term "slaveholder" rather than "slave owner", so that questions of justice and legality of claims of ownership need not be Its fertile valleys have for years yielded astonishing crops. Reprints of this book and Vol II may still be available. No family history research. According to local tradition, he camped near the present day Some of these towns were: Buena Vista, originally known as Monterey, was established in 1847 on the Houston/Aberdeen Road and was a center of culture and refinement. Southern Mississippi Genealogical Society, 72 Boggy Hollow Rd., Early "cottage" type industries included boot and show making and the manufacture of buggies and wagons, tinware, coffins and furniture. GA, or from the westerns states of TN and KY. In 1934, things were looking up in Chickasaw Co; but the effects of the Depression still lingered among the residents until the beginning of World War II. In the "first call" from Chickasaw Co there were two hundred and ninety-four and many young men did not wait to be drafted. After reaching the area which is now Winston Co, the stick no longer leaned after being "planted" by the campfire. Owl Creek mounds to the north of Davis Lake in the Natchez Trace Game area are examples of this type of mound. One of the projects constructed by the young Although most of the Klan activity in Chickasaw Co was directed towards the blacks, sometimes whites were also targeted. Though agriculture remained the countys primary subsistence activity, the demise of Chickasaws plantation economy led to the rise of small farms and sharecropping. This transcription lists the names of those largest slaveholders in the County, the number of slaves they held in than what the colored population had been 100 years before.) Denominations represented in Okolona during this period were Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Cumberland Presbyterian and Roman Catholic. Ironically, the Trail of Tears was their ultimate reward. Professor Hosea B. Abernathy and his wife, Sallie Garrett Abernethy conducted the school. who lived through World War II are unable to remember where he or she was or what they were doing when word came on Sunday, Dec 7, 1941 that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor. The following information is based on excerpts from the "History of Chickasaw Co, Vol I" published by the Chickasaw Co Historical and Genealogical Society, Copyright 1985. The agricultural economy with cotton as the span money crop was based firmly on the institution of slavery. The old Methodist Church bell The law creating Chickasaw Co was passed by the MS legislature on Feb 9, 1836. Scattered Ku Klux Klan violence occurred in response to black political involvement, especially at voting sites. About Us | Contact Us | Copyright | Report Inappropriate Material I do not live in the area so I am dependent on all of you for more genealogical data. Houlka, originally an Indian village, is Chickasaw Co's oldest town. enumerated in 1860 without giving their names, only their sex and age and indication of any handicaps, such as deaf or blind Until this requirement was met, Southern states had no representation in Washington. Red Harrell Reid, editor of the "Hummer" a county newspaper wrote in Nov 1915: "There is a strange looking object looming up on the agricultural horizon -- a sort of geared grasshopper, an aluminum, camel humped denuded motor equipped with one or more span Particularly in the case of the first mercantile firm was founded by W. L. Dogan; but he moved the business to In Okolona, Rose Gate College continued through the war years and the Male Academy conducted school until the actual fighting began in the area. was edited by D. C. Greenwood. supreme sacrifice. However, the data should be checked for the particular surname to see the extent of the matching. Later, they returned to the Tomspanbee area, finally locating primarily in an area which today includes Lee, Pontotoc and Chickasaw Counties. On the federal level the Congress established the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The Board of Supervisors cut taxes; but people were still unable to pay their taxes and lists of property being sold to pay the taxes filled the newspapers. The formal boundaries for the City of Houston encompass a land area of 7.38 sq. In April 1861, Confederate guns opened fire on Ft. Sumpter, SC and the War Between the States began. the "colored" population had increased about 11% to 10,069. In 1849 this school was named "Houston Female Academy" and was run as a girls' school by Mrs. D. E. Turman. On a national level, Democrat candidates consistently carried the county, but it was not unusual for a popular Whig to win in a sate or local election. The local churches planned a community wide prayer service which was to commence when word was received that the troops had hit the beaches. necessities. some went. The story of Chickasaw Co is the story of the people who have passed through or settled and made their homes in this small area of northeast MS. In the early 1900s, automobiles were a familiar site in the county. T. Z. Carothers, a graduate of Princeton, C. P. Ray and A. J. Jamison were closely identified with this school. Manufacturing establishments produced saddles, harnesses, tin goods, cabinets and carriages. In 1888, the MS Normal College was established and soon became one of the leading institutions in the area. in three decisive defeats at the hands of the Indians. Chickasaw County is located in the northeast area of the state. Racially related terms such as African American, black, mulatto and colored are used as in Leading citizens of Chickasaw Co persuaded him to move the school to Houston. dark eyes and moved with a superior and independent air. The last U.S. census slave schedules were enumerated by County in 1860 and included 393,975 named persons holding Reprints of this book and Vol II may still be available. The typical Chickasaw Co family found it necessary to be self sustaining now, more than ever. 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