African-American Resources for Pontotoc County, Mississippi

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Pontotoc, Mississippi, United States
Surnames/tags: Black_Heritage Slavery

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Pontotoc is a Chickasaw word meaning Land of Hanging Grapes. The Chickasaw people occupied this area before Europeans colonized the Southeast. By 1860 Pontotoc County had become Mississippi’s ninth-largest county, with a population of 14,517 free people and 7,596 enslaved.

Contents 1 Genealogy Resources 2 Cemeteries 3 Slave Owners 4 Plantations 5 One Place Studies 6 Stats for 2023 7 Sources

Genealogy Resources

• MSGW's List of 1860 Enslavers from Pontotoc County
• 1880 Census spreadsheet for Pontotoc County

Cemeteries

1. College Hill Cemetery on FG 132 memorials need profiles *College Hill Cemetery, Pontotoc County, Mississippi category
2. COMPLETED New Salem Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery on FG 11 memorials need profiles *New Salem Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, Troy, Mississippi category

Slave Owners

1. Chas S Abernathy
2. Jas F Abernathy
3. Rufus T Abernathy
4. Starling Abernathy aka S G Sterling on the 1860 Census
5. Robert Acre
6. John Adams (abt.1810-)
7. Larkin Bailey
8. Nathaniel Watson Dandridge
9. William Taylor Dennis
10. James Maul Givhan
11. William Phillip Givhan (1816-1863)
12. Robert Gordon
13. Joshua Word Hooper (1798-1877)
14. Joshua Teague Pitts (1822-1895)
15. Joel Pinson (1786-1852)
16. Turner Thomason (1814-1885)
17. James Agnew Ware (1804-1865)
18. Mary (Watt) Kyle (1784-1854)
19. George M Weatherall (1788-1852)
20. Joseph Edwin Weatherall (1825-1902)
21. Marshall Weatherall (1792-1865)
22. Samuel Watt Weatherall

See: Pontotoc County, Mississippi, Slave Owners category for updated list of Pontotoc County Enslavers.

Slave Schedules - find profiles already on WikiTree, then create new slave owner profiles.

• 1850 Slave Schedule, Pontotoc County
• 1860 Slave Schedule, Pontotoc County

Plantations

• Lochinvar, the plantation home of Robert Gordon and his son, Col. James Gordon, of Pontotoc County, Mississippi

One Place Studies

Stats for 2023

1. One cemetery completed: New Salem Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery
2. 22 Slave owner profiles created

Sources