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Located 20 miles from the state capital of Jackson, Copiah County was organized after an agreement was reached with the Choctaw Indians in 1820. Named after a Native American word meaning "calling panther," Copiah County quickly became an agricultural and manufacturing hub. Once known as the "Tomato Capital of the World," the county was the location of the largest Chautauqua assemblies in the South, and the site of the founding of the Mississippi Parent Teacher Association. The former town of Brown's Wells once produced spring water that "healed" the rich and famous. Notable citizens from Copiah County include bluesman Robert Johnson; Maj. R. W. Millsaps, for whom Millsaps College was named; Burnita Shelton Matthews, the first female federal district court judge; Pat Harrison, a former representative and senator; Albert Gallatin Brown, a former governor; and Fannye Cook, an author and the first director of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.
By: Mary E Thomas, Reprinted 2017, 128 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-660-6. Copiah County was created in 1823 out of Hinds County, MS. It is located in the center of the state and was originally purchased from the Choctaw Indians.
356 pages with 89 total maps Locating original landowners in maps has never been an easy task-until now. This volume in the Family Maps series contains newly created maps of original landowners (patent maps) in what is now Copiah County, Mississippi, gleaned from the indexes of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. But it offers much more than that. For each township in the county, there are two additional maps accompanying the patent map: a road map and a map showing waterways, railroads, and both modern and many historical city-centers and cemeteries. Included are indexes to help you locate what you are looking for, whether you know a person's name, a last name, a place-name, or a cemetery. The combination of maps and indexes are designed to aid researchers of American history or genealogy to explore frontier neighborhoods, examine family migrations, locate hard-to-find cemeteries and towns, as well as locate land based on legal descriptions found in old documents or deeds. The patent-maps are essentially plat maps but instead of depicting owners for a particular year, these maps show original landowners, no matter when the transfer from the federal government was completed. Dates of patents typically begin near the time of statehood and run into the early 1900s. What's Mapped in this book (that you'll not likely find elsewhere) . . . 6452 Parcels of Land (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map) 83 Cemeteries plus . . . Roads, and existing Rivers, Creeks, Streams, Railroads, and Small-towns (including some historical), etc. What YEARS are these maps for? Here are the counts for parcels of land mapped, by the decade in which the corresponding land patents were issued: DecadeParcel-count 1820s809 1830s257 1840s2582 1850s2391 1860s269 1870s12 1880s26 1890s27 1900s38 1910s24 1920s17 What Cities and Towns are in Copiah County, Mississippi (and in this book)? Allen, Ashley, Barlow, Beauregard, Beech Grove, Bowerton, Browns Wells, Burtonton (historical), Carpenter, Coaler (historical), Coars Springs (historical), Conn, Cowanville, Crystal Springs, Dentville, Egypt Hill, Gallatin, Gallman, Gatesville, Georgetown, Glancy, Harperville (historical), Hazlehurst, Hoodtown, Hopewell, Jack, Kinnaird (historical), Linden (historical), Martinsville, Midway, Myles, Old Georgetown (historical), Pleasant Hill, Rockport, Ruby, Sand Hill, Sardis, Shady Grove, Smyrna, Stronghope, Tillman, Wesson, Willing