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"Let the record be made of the men and things of to-day, lest they pass out of memory to-morrow and are lost. Then perpetuate them not upon wood or stone that crumble to dust, but upon paper, chronicled in picture and in words that endure forever." --Kirkland
My name is Deb Haines, Coordinator of the Marshall County, MSGenWeb Project.
Marshall County was established February 9, 1836, the year in which the Chickasaw session of 1832 was divided by the commonwealth into political organizations. It was named for John Marshall (1755-1835), third Chief Justice of the U.S., and formerly included within its area a considerable portion of Benton, Tate, and several other counties... more history
The first court house was built in 1837 and it was burned during the Civil War. The courthouse shown above was built in 1870 then remodeled in 1920.
Please note: The Marshall County mailing list and the query/message board are excellent resource tools for asking genealogical and historical questions, requesting lookups, sharing information, locating cousins, etc. Please do not forget to use these resource tools to further your genealogical research.
Mar 2011:
The Last Road to Freedom [offsite link - Dr. Alisea Williams McLeod has been involved in family history research for nearly two decades. She came across a microfilmed document, The Register of Freedmen, two years ago at the National Archives while researching her paternal family. As it turned out, McLeod’s family, her second great grandmother and four of her children, are included in this record. The five were slaves of William Hull of the Crump-Hull family, builders of two historic homes in Holly Springs, Greenwood Plantation and Crump Place. The record, which McLeod believes dates to 1863, is a register of African Americans who sought refuge behind Union lines in occupied- Memphis. There are over three thousand persons listed in the record, former slaves from several states. The Register was taken at Camp Shiloh, a Civil War contraband or refugee camp in Memphis. McLeod believes that a hundred or more persons found in this record were transferred from a similar camp at Corinth, Mississippi after it closed. The complete record, transcribed by McLeod, can be found at www.lastroadtofreedom.com. McLeod can be reached at lastroadtofreedom@gmail.com.]
MSGenWeb State Coordinator: Jeff Kemp
MSGenWeb Asst State Coordinator: Denise Wells or Ann Geoghegan
Marshall County Coordinator: Deb Haines
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