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Amite County, Mississippi

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History/Timeline

Government Offices

Chancery Clerk
(land and probate records from 1809)
Courthouse Square
242 W. Main St.
P.O. Box 680
Liberty, MS 39645-0680
Phone: 657-8022
Fax: 657-8288
Circuit Clerk
(marriage records)
P.O. Box 312
Liberty, MS 39645-0312
Phone: 657-8932

Town

County Formed From

In 1802 Wilkinson County was established from Adams County. On February 24, 1809, the general assembly of the Mississippi Territory enacted the division of Wilkinson County and the establishment of Amite. Amite was the fifth county formed in the Mississippi Territory

Geography

Adjacent counties

Bordering Counties are:

Franklin County,
Lincoln County,
Pike County,
Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana,
St. Helena Parish, Louisiana,
Feliciana Parish, Louisiana and
Wilkinson County.

Protected areas

Demographics

County Resources

Census


Notables

  • Jerry Clower, Howard Gerald "Jerry" Clower (September 28, 1926 – August 24, 1998), comedian best known for his stories of the rural South
  • Dr. Tichenor, George Humphrey Tichenor (April 12, 1837 – January 14, 1923), Inventor of Dr. Tichenor's antiseptic products.
  • Gail Borden (1801 - 1874), inventor of Borden's condensed milk.

Pioneers on WikiTree

Land Grants/Records

  • Category: Amite County, Mississippi, Homesteaders

Indian Involvement

"About 1706, the Houmas and nearby Tunicas were feeling threatened by northern tribes from Mississippi. The Tunica settled in with the Houmas, only to later turn on them and kill over half of the tribe."
"The following years saw the Houmas making peace ... with the Chitimacha in 1716, and the Tunica and Natchez in 1723. Bienville noted in 1723 that "this nation (Houma) is very brave and very laborious." It was reported in 1749 by Joseph De LaPorte that the Houmas lived in two villages located about six miles south of the Lafourche. De Kerlerec noted in 1758 that their location was about 66 miles upriver from New Orleans."
"The latter half of the century was not a good time for the tribe. In 1771, John Thomas reported that there were 46 Houma warriors. In the latter half of the 18th century, a number of small conflicts between the Houmas and other tribes were reported. Their land, for which they had received a verbal guarantee, was sold out from under them. Legal battles were attempted ... some lasting for decades ... but failed due to a lack of a written document. The tribe was still on the land in 1785 and refused to move."
"In 1803, Daniel Clark reported that there were 60 Houmas living on the east bank of the Mississippi River, about 75 miles upriver from New Orleans. John Sibley reported in 1806 that there were just a few Houmas living on the east side of the Mississippi just south of Bayou Manchac. Sibley also noted that some of the Houmas had traveled west and intermarried with the Attakapas tribe."[1]

Slave and Feedmen Resources

Civil War Military Units

Civil War Military Units from Amite County Mississippi and Surrounding Area. (Rosters found in the Amite County Courthouse in Liberty, Mississippi. Transcribed and published by Albert S. Casey in Vol. III of History of Amite County, Mississippi.)

  • 7th Mississippi Regiment, Company B: Amite County Rifles. The Amite County Rifles was organized in April, 1861 and on April 29, 1861 went into camp at Camp Brown about a half mile north of Liberty on the west side of Speculation Creek. Roster
  • 7th Mississippi Regiment, Company K, the Amite County Rangers, was organized in the last days of Oct. 1861 and rendezvoused at Minors Quarters near Natchez 11-14-1861. Left there 1.1.1862 going to Memphis on the Mary E, Keene boat where the company remained two weeks; from thence went to Columbus, Ky. on the John Simonds Steamboat where Company joined Blythes Batallion as Company K afterwards known as the 44th Regiment of Mississippi Volunteers. Roster.
  • 22nd Mississippi Regiment, Company E: Liberty Guards. The Liberty Guards was organized April 1861, and on April 29, 1861 the company rendezvoused at Camp Davis, seven and one-half miles from Liberty on the flat on south side of Liberty and Summit road, about a half mile west of the Chandler bridge across the East prong of the Amite River. The Liberty Guards left Liberty on July 25, 1861, as an independent volunteer Company for the war, proceeding to Iuka,. Mississippi; mustered into Confederate service August 13, 1861, and attached to 22nd Mississippi Regiment and given place of Company E in said regiment.Roster
  • 33rd Mississippi Regiment, Company B: Amite County Guards. Roster.
  • 33rd Mississippi Regiment, Company K: Amite County Defenders. Roster
  • 44th Mississippi Regiment, Company K: Amite County Rangers.Roster.
  • 4th Mississippi Cavalry, Company I: Stockdale's Battalion.(from Pike County)Roster.

Cemeteries

Bibliography

  • Amite County, Mississippi, 1699-1865. Vol. 1. Ed. Albert E. Casey. Birmingham, AL: Amite Co. Historical Fund, 1948.
  • Amite County, Mississippi, 1699-1865. Vol. 2--The Churches. Ed. Albert E. Casey. Birmingham, AL: Amite Co. Historical Fund, 1950.
  • Farewell to this Day: The Diary of Miss Frances Ann Cain of Zion Hill, Mississippi, 1856-1858. Transcribed by J. Paul Mogan, Jr and Kathryn Cole Mogan. Osyka, Mississippi: Armadillo Books, 1983.
  • Gilles, Norman E. Geneological Abstract of Biographical Section of Godspeed's Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1962.
  • Mogan, J. Paul, Jr., Kathryn Mogan, and Glenn Huff. Amite County Mississippi Cemeteries. Osyka, Mississippi: Armadillo Books, 1982.
  • Murray, Nicholas Russell. Amite County, Mississippi Marriages, 1810-1899. Hammond, Louisiana: 1980.
  • Welch, Alice Tracy. Daughters of the American Revolution Family Records: Mississippi Revolutionary Soldiers.
  • Mississippi: A Guide to the Magnolia State, Complied and Written by the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration. New York: Hastings House, Publishers, 1949.
  • Smith, Dale Edwyna. The Slaves of Liberty: Freedom in Amite County, Mississippi, 1820-1868. Ph.D. Dissertation. Harvard University, 1993.
  • Eli J. Capell Family Papers, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections ... Eli Jackson Capell was a planter of Amite County, Mississippi

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Sources

  1. ↑ Houmas Indians




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