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Pontotoc County (Miss.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

M.W. Andrews. Memoirs of the War Between the States

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-229
Scope and Contents

"Memoirs of the War Between the States" (May-August, 1861), is a Civil War reminiscence as told to Icie A. Moore by Martin Wells Andrews, Cherry Creek, Mississippi (Pontotoc County), concerning his service in the 2nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company I (Cherry Creek Rifles).

Dates: undated

Chickasaw Female College Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-171-172
Scope and Contents

Minutes of the Board of Trustees of the college which was located in Pontotoc, Mississippi.



Dates: 1852 - 1898

Duncan and Blackwell Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-726
Scope and Contents This collection includes the papers of various family members stemming from the Duncan and Blackwell family line. This includes materials from the Bias, Beane, Fontaine, Mitchell, and Tardy families as well as other connections. Materials include correspondence, diaries, family bibles, business papers (e.g., sale of cotton receipts), ledgers, estate records, bills of sale for enslaved persons, photographs, and other miscellaneous objects. The bulk of these materials come from the middle- to...
Dates: 1800-1950

Irene Ivy Moore Reminiscence

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-233
Scope and Contents

"Dates, Data, and Reminiscences of the Past", circa 1931, a reminiscence by early settler Irene Ivy Moore (1847-1931) includes information concerning North Mississippi, especially Chickasaw and Pontotoc Counties; letter of Robert A. Ivy concerning reminiscence, 1969.

Dates: 1931, 1969