Leake County, Mississippi
Organizations
Please let me know of any genealogy organizations!
Dancing Rabbit
Genealogical
Society
Dancing Rabbit Genealogical & Historical Society of Carthage, MS
announces the completion of their forthcoming book titled Leake County,
Mississippi Tombstone Inscriptions. It will be a deep forest green with
gold lettering, fine-quality, hard-bound book containing over 750
pages of inscriptions, approximately 30,000 names, over 200 cemeteries,
and an “every name” index. It includes every cemetery in Leake County
that the society was able to locate and several that situated near the
Leake County line in adjoining counties. Also included will be
additional genealogical and historical information derived from
obituaries and other sources.
The cost will be $65.00 plus $5.00 shipping if
the book is mailed. In order to obtain the best printing cost, a 10%
discount is being offered until January 1, 2010, on the purchase of one
or more books in advance of publication. If you are interested in
purchasing a book at the discounted rate, please contact DRGHS at
601-267-9034 or email drghsociety@yahoo.com
or write to 114 E. Franklin St., Carthage, MS 39051.
Queries
eMail: New queries will no longer be accepted, only updates and
corrections. MSGen(at)MSGen.net indicating "Leake
Queries
page" and "(at)" must be replaced with "@" for the address to work.
Mississippi, Leake County Queries
Some Leake County queries.
Published Genealogy Materials
Index for Walnut Grove: The Old town by Leon Young . Index only by Delores Sanders. No longer available.
Libraries
Links
MSGenWeb:
Leake
County, Mississippi
Pages about Leake County Towns/Map, Partial Civil War muster roll of
Soldiers in Co. E. 27th Mississippi Infantry, Maps, Dancing Rabbit
Genealogical
Society, 1895 U.S. Atlas, Geographic Names Information System Place
Names
for Leake County, Choctaw Information, Unofficial Choctaw Nation Home
Page,
Native American Genealogy and more
USGS
General Query Form of USGS Data
Search the United States Geological Survey Query for listing of about
120 Cemetery names and locations.
Leake County Data Index
Listing of cemeteries with GPS coordinates
Newspapers
The Carthaginian: http://www.thecarthaginian.com
Look Ups and Research
Neighboring Counties
Attala, Winston, north | Winston, Neshoba, Newton, east | Newton, Scott, south | Scott, Madison, Attala, west
times since October 17, 1998.