Confederate soldiers and officials at first were denied the vote and the blacks had a clear majority and elected black candidates to public office. Only about 29 percent of farmers owned their own land. Between 1840 and 1850, the white population of Chickasaw Co grew from 2,148 to 9,887. Eventually the section from Gibson to Hwy 45 at Aberdeen was paved. was Henry R. Carter. The plight of the newly freed blacks was more serious than that of the county's white citizens. without a stamped number. what is now Calhoun Co. Two other early roads, one between Houston and Pontotoc and another that connected Houston and Aberdeen were built. Wallace A. On the federal level the Congress established the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The blue star would be changed to a gold star when the husband, son, daughter or brother had made the This latter group was made up of individuals who opposed secession as a solution to the problem. slaveholder in each County. Due to variable film quality, In 1910, a small insect from Mexico appeared for the first time in Chickasaw Co and this small insect, the boll weevil would force diversification. The town of Sardis is the county seat for the First District, the northern part of the county, and Batesville is the county seat for the Second District, the southern part of the county. The officials of Chickasaw Co attempted to levy funds for the relief of wives and widows and the children of the soldiers. time. the Union forces inflicted little permanent damage. But the demand for milk needed for soldiers stationed at Camp McCain in Grenada necessitated the creation of Grade A dairies. The location of the plant was ideal to attract personnel from Okolona, Houston and other smaller communities in Chickasaw Co as well as Aberdeen, West Point and other nearby Approximately 3,000 blacks, with an equal number of horses, were with General Smith when he invaded the county in Feb 1864. Chickasaw County experienced considerable growth during the first few decades of the twentieth century. http://www.heritagequest.com/ . According to local tradition, he camped near the present day FORMER SLAVES. Early newspapers included "The Houston State Advocate", the first county paper. Prior to the Civil War, the county also had two Christian churches, two Episcopal churches, and three Union churches. the main subdivisions of the State by which the census was enumerated. the source or at the time of the source, with African American being used otherwise. Under the 1831 Treaty of Pontotoc, these lands became available for purchase from the Chickasaw Tribe and were quickly incorporated into the United States. Dr. V. B. Philot was the surgeon in charge. This struggle was peaceful, but not pretty. Martin renamed the paper "The Southern Items such as Coca Cola and cigarettes were also hard to get; but there were few complaints. Pontotoc soon afterward. These programs were designed to raise the price of cotton and other farm products by lowering the amount of production. If interested in purchasing one of these volumes, contact the Chickasaw Co Historical and Genealogical Society, P. O. All officials that had been elected under the Johnson plan were removed and the county returned to military lower because some large holders held slaves in more than one County and they would have been counted as a separate seats. 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. In addition to the government assistance, private charity work was being done. The property consists Turnpikes and A county welfare program in Chickasaw County, accounting for 3,222 slaves, or 35% of the County total. The county was served by several stage lines with rented hacks and carriages in the early days. William Raspberry, a Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist, grew up in Okolona and graduated from Okolona College High School in 1952. Needy people were able to work were given "construction jobs" and others received direct relief. One is that they had a disagreement. During these years, before federal grants and government assistance, the people had rebuilt their county. Chickasaw Co citizens struggled to continue the education of their children during the war years and afterward. Where did the Chickasaw County freed slaves go if they did not stay in the County? As the one hundred and fiftieth year drew near, it ws noted that this five hundred and seven square miles of northeast MS has endured and often prospered through a variety of upheavals. Please do not use GIF. the County and the first census page on which they were listed. To avoid exposure, Klan leaders from Okolona would conduct their business in West Chickasaw Co and their Houston neighbors would cross the creek when called upon to return the favor in the eastern section of the county. By the latter part of the 17th century, much of what is now Chickasaw Co was in the hands of the French. Long before the county was formed a type of Paleo-Indian people, also known as the Hopewells, lived here. A highlight of the event was the presence and participation of Overton James, Governor of the Chickasaw nation, and his The first Board of Police consisted of Littlebury Gilliam, Thomas Gates, Thomas D. Wooldridge, Benjamin Bugg and Asa H. Braddock who were selected in an election held Apr 23, 1836. After a two or three day "run" on the Okolona Banking Company in Oct 1930, the bank closed its doors. Easily find land for sale in Mississippi at LANDFLIP.com. The Plantation at Coal Creek, Tuttle. raised and was a primary source of meat. Its county seats are Houston and Okolona. Land for Sale. The primary coordinate point for Houston is located at latitude 33.8984 and longitude -88.9992 in Chickasaw County . Chickasaw has long been home to Sparta Opry, a live country music show. 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. On Apr 20th, 1863 some of the Federal troops entered Houston and it was at this time that the records of Chickasaw Co were burned. 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. Southern Democrats were split by the Compromise of 1850 and those in favor of the Compromise joining with the Whigs to form the Union Party. In 1905 the Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad came to Houston. However, the slaves from the larger plantations who had been mistreated by their often left with the Federal troops. In 1930, a record breaking drought gripped the entire nation and became one of the grimmest periods in the history of Chickasaw Co. The Federal blockade of the Atlantic and Gulf ports dried up foreign markets for cotton and other agricultural products and the people of Chickasaw Co suffered. Candles, kerosene lamps and gas lights were replaced by electric lights and old out houses were replaced by flushing toilets. A co-educational academy was established about 1850 by Dr. Hugh Quinn at Palo Alto. In 1930 Chickasaws population of 20,835 was almost evenly divided between white and African American residents. Palmyra Plantation: Quitman, Turner Poplar Grove Propinquity Plantation Providence Plantation: Veazie River Place (near Ellis Cliffs): Wolcot River Place (near Natchez Island): The citizens of Chickasaw Co waited eagerly for news of the invasion of the European continent. owners. Two volumes that were overlooked when the records were loaded from the Knitting instructions were printed in the local newspapers. Patriot" and in 1854, the paper's name was changed again to " The Southern Argus" by its new owner, Jehu A. Orr. The old Methodist Church bell For two days, this group of men were unable to agree on a location for the county seat. However, the streets of both towns became a "sea of mud" during the rainy seasons and "miniature dust bowls" during the dry seasons. The Union forces were destroying vast stores of grain which had been stored along the railroad as they went. Rev. Census data for 1860 was obtained from the Historical United States Census Data Mississippi, in 1860, is either non-existent or not readily available. All were shown as in Division 1, except the two holders on As more and more white settlers arrived, the struggle Gen. Ord, commanding the AR/MS district ordered another constitutional convention in Dec 1867. The page numbers used are the rubber stamped numbers in the upper Much of its trade had been taken over by West Point and its male addressed in this transcription. There were six lawyers and six doctors in the town. Martin later built another church about three miles of Houston. The elevation is 354 feet. pages 385B and 388, who were shown in Division 2. The county has many acres of timber land, consisting mainly of pine trees, a large dairy, beef farms, hog farms and poultry houses. The leading citizens of Houston made several attempts to get a railroad through the town, but were unsuccessful until 1905. Chickasaw County is located in the northeast area of the state. Another building was built to house an elementary grades of the Houston Municipal system and was located on the southeast corner of Madison and Starkville. The French viewed the Chickasaw Indians as a "troublesome" people and were determined to wipe them out. FORMAT. 8. 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." 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. The death toll for Chickasaw Co during Though the census schedules speak in terms of "slave owners", the transcriber has chosen to use the Based on recent LandWatch data, Chickasaw County ranks 68th among the 82 counties in the state for 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. Houston was incorporated on May 9, 1837 and its first post office was established Dec 5, 1837 and the Postmaster Before the War Between the States, a road bed for a spur line from Okolona to Houston had been built. The prayer service was held later in the day at a more convenient time. Slaves were There are 80,000 acres of farm land in Chickasaw County, growing soybeans, corn, cotton, sweet potatoes, forage crops and truck patches. slaveholder. Commercial use of this information is strictly prohibited without prior permission of the owner. 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These counties West of the town of West Point, General N. B. Forrest's troops fired on some scouts from Smith's command. it is beyond the scope of this transcription. The automobile was replacing the horse and buggy and a new invention, the radio, was bringing the world into homes throughout the county. Later, they returned to the Tomspanbee area, finally locating primarily in an area which today includes Lee, Pontotoc and Chickasaw Counties. He was seriously wounded twice, but lived through the war and returned to serve his native state in the Legislature. Palo Alto declined following the War Between the States. During the pre-war period only about one-third of the MS population was affiliated with a church or religion. After the surrender of Lee, the soldiers returned home to Chickasaw Co to almost unbelievable disaster. Freed slaves, if listed in the next census, in 1870, would have been reported Assuming that he was facing a much larger to town to try their hand at occupations other than farming. U.S. Civil defense was taken seriously, first aid classes were conducted throughout the county and black-outs were practiced in various communities. locally owned hospital until 1980 when it was sold to Brookwood Hospital Management Corporation of Birmingham. 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". The Chickasaw Indians refused, set fire to the Spanish dwellings and attacked the soldiers as they fled the flames. Dr. Charles Davis of McCondy opened the county's first hospital in Houston in 1914. Radicals led by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton and Thaddeus Stevens gained control of the Republican party and the 7,338 whites, 1 "free colored" and 9,087 slaves. 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. A petition was circulated in Chickasaw Co to re-establish the office of County Agent that had been abolished previously as an economic measure. Roll 596) reportedly includes a total of 9,087 slaves. The actual number of slaveholders may be slightly According to oral Chickasaw tradition, which is a mixture of fact and legend, these Indian people left their homeland because of oppression. They moved on north and east, crossing Chuquatonchee Creek and finally stopped at a Chickasaw town called Chicaca. In Dec 1864, a final effort against the railroad pitted the troops of General Grierson against Confederate General Gholson at the Battle of Egypt. Before the war ended, there were forty-seven gold stars in Chickasaw Co homes. 7%. These counties are: Pontotoc, Lee, Montgomery, Clay, Webster, and 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. 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. Bonds floated to repay county indebtedness did not find buyers. presuming an African American was a slave on the 1860 census, the free census for 1860 should be checked, as almost 11% In April 1861, Confederate guns opened fire on Ft. Sumpter, SC and the War Between the States began. These schools offered a wide variety of subjects including the sciences, philosophy, Greek and Latin. arising the next morning, they would travel in the direction that the stick was leaning. Residents of Chickasaw Co watched very closely as the war in Europe began in 1914 and escalated. One of the first roads constructed in the new county was between Houston and Hopewell; Hopewell now being an extinct town located in Vestiges of the Chickasaw Co. Travel across the bottom lands of Houlka and Chuquantonchee Creeks was very difficult and sometimes impossible during the rainy season. Farming operations were smaller and a new system known as share-cropping came into being. The boundaries of five counties link with Chickasaw Co. The Public Works Administration changed the face of Chickasaw Co. School buildings and other public buildings were improved. leaving from Houston were all volunteers and was made up of individuals from all parts of the county. By 1900 the countys population had grown to almost twenty thousand, and in 1909 the county constructed Mississippis first Carnegie Library in Houston. The agricultural economy with cotton as the span money crop was based firmly on the institution of slavery. Plantation names were not shown on the census. 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 In the "first call" from Chickasaw Co there were two hundred and ninety-four and many young men did not wait to be drafted. African American ancestor with one of these surnames is found on the 1870 census, then making the link to finding that party came on strongly with an anti-slavery plank, state Democrats forgot their differences. However, they encountered Confederate troops at Palo alto and the Union forces were turned north toward Okolona. There was great rejoicing when news of the victory in Europe was announced and V-J Day was an even more joyous occasion. Chickasaw County is located in the northeast area of the state. The county is named for the Chickasaw people, who lived in this area for hundreds of years. In 1845, the town of Okolona was established, located in the northeastern part of the county. 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. Colonel Grierson and his Second Iowa Regiment camped overnight in Chickasaw Co at Dr. Benjamin Kilgore's plantation. of large farms must have resulted in lots of duplication of plantation names. enumeration of the transcribed slaveholders. can be viewed to see if there were smaller slaveholders with that surname. Schools went from nine month terms to eight months in an effort to cut expenses. At the turn of the century, more than half of white farmers owned the land they worked, while only 12 percent of Chickasaws black farmers claimed ownership. The Chickasaw Indians were hospitable and the Spaniards spent the winter of 1540-51 at Chicaca. Houlka, originally an Indian village, is Chickasaw Co's oldest town. right corner of every set of two pages, with the previous stamped number and a "B" being used to designate the pages 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. Limited number of street lights in each community were burned at one time and local users were strongly urged to practice conversation in their electrical use in businesses and homes. Provisions for public school funding was not made until the creation of the common school fund in 1846. Again Smith's troops broke and the Federal troops retreated to TN. At this meeting they ordered an election for the purpose of choosing a Board of Police which would serve in the capacity similar to present day's Board of Supervisors. Other train crops and various legumes were also grown. Nevertheless, Chickasaw Co had a number of churches. Northern VA. Chickasaw Co men served in every theater of the war and hardly a significant battle was fought in which Chickasaw Co soldiers were not a part. Those who have found a free ancestor on the 1860 Chickasaw County, Mississippi census can check this list to learn if their That year corn sold as low as 15 cents a bushel. The Viet Nam War split the nation, but the people of Chickasaw Co again sent sons, husbands and brothers to that far corner of the world. These people emigrated to what is now the state of MS by following a magical stick and a white dog. Under the presidency of Andrew Jackson, the Indians were finally driven from Chickasaw Co. Jackson passed through the area on his return from the Battle of New Orleans in Feb 1813. College". 1,000 acres or more, the largest size category enumerated in the census, and another 1,868 farms of 500-999 acres. "The Chickasaw Republican" 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. In June 1950, the United States was once again sending its young men to war. In 1866, the year before the great immigration from Texas, one man raised on his Washita valley farm 100,000 bushels of corn. Easily find plantation land for sale in Calhoun County County Mississippi at LANDFLIP.com. Reconstruction left scars on the blacks and whites alike. Although most of the Klan activity in Chickasaw Co was directed towards the blacks, sometimes whites were also targeted. Reprints of this book and Vol II may still be available. Buy. Its fertile valleys have for years yielded astonishing crops. This transcription includes 56 slaveholders who held 40 or more slaves Anti-slavery agitation in the north Chickasaw Co voters, in both parties, began to grow around the late 1840s. owners. shipping center for the cotton growers and outstripped Houston as a center of commerce. The 1860 U.S. Census Slave Schedules for Chickasaw County, Mississippi (NARA microfilm series M653, ancestor as a slave requires advanced research techniques involving all obtainable records of the holder. All rights reserved. The Chickasaw Indians became known as one of the Five Civilized Tribes. 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 Particularly in the case of General Sooey Smith was ordered to move from LaGrange, TN and rendezvous with his commander General Sherman for an attack on the Confederate arsenal at Selma, AL. 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 Though the countys citizens were originally divided in their loyalties, Chickasaw Countys political representatives eventually formed a solid base in favor of secession, and many of the countys natives served in the Civil War. In Chickasaw Co, patriotism One of the projects constructed by the young miles and a water area of 0.02 sq. One outstanding general officer, William Feimster Tucker, was produced. Citizen committees were formed to promote the construction of gravel roads throughout the county. Two dominant parties in the county were the Democrat and Whig, the Democrat holding the majority. Temperance societies were formed throughout the county and lecturers were brought in to lecture on the evils of strong drink. The national moral decline never reached full proportion in the county, but its effects filtered into the area. Estimates of In 1943, this institution was sold to Dr. John D. Dyer and continued as a Young men returning from World War I found a booming economy. It was taken over in 1933 by the Episcopal church and continued operation until 1965. Another twenty years passed and another Frenchman, Vandruil, attempted to crush the Chickasaw nation. 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 Joel Pinson donated a plot of ground to each of the four denominations represented in Houston at its founding. Camp McCoy, WI for additional training before going overseas. In Sept 1930, the rains finally came but were too late. The war lasted only three years, but twenty-one of Chickasaw County's men gave their lives in this conflict. Only five years passed between the end of World War II and the beginning of the Korean Conflict. Crops must be diversified with less emphasis on cotton and more emphasis on animal husbandry. Another story is told of a small pox epidemic originating with the bone barriers. In 1856 when the newly formed Republican With the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the weakness of his successor, Andrew Johnson; tragic consequences existed for the Southerners. The county takes its name from the regions native inhabitants and was formally established on 9 February 1836. Battle founded Okolona College, a black institution in 1902. rule. We are always in need of more information. However, this last raid of the war in Chickasaw Co resulted in the loss of a large quantity of supplies. At the head of navigation on the Chuquantonchee Creek, it was an important port for the shipping of agricultural products to the port of Mobile. Chickasaw County Historical and Genealogical Society. and Counties, return to Home and Links Page. quickly reached a high pitch. Lowndes and Warren Counties in Mississippi saw increases of 6,000 and 8,000, but no other Mississippi A very large percentage of the white population were slave The British directed a Mr. Stuart, superintendent of Indian affairs south of the Ohio River, to "rally the Chickasaws and other tribes to take arms against His Majesty's The sweet potato industry was begun in the 1930s, but increased greatly during the war years. Other county officers were selected on May 6 & 7, 1836. 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