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• AfriGeneas Forum - Oktibbeha County, MS
• Rootsweb Oktibbeha County (1999 - Present)
• Oktibbeha County, MS GenealogyForum (2010 - 2013)
• Oktibbeha County, MS GenealogyForum (1999 - 2011)
Websites
• Oktibbeha County Mississippi Genealogy
• Oktibbeha County, Mississippi Largest Slaveholders From 1860 Slave Census Schedules and Surname Matches For African Americans on the 1870 Census
• MDAH's Index to Freedmen's Bureau Contracts (under "Sort", choose Planter; in "Search Term" box, enter Oktibbeha)
--First, be sure to read the "MDAH's Freedmen's Bureau Search Help Page"
• MDAH's Index to African-American Confederate Pension Applications (choose radio button for "County", choose Oktibbeha)
--NB: Bristol (s/b Brister) Elliott, who is not included in this list, is named in the "Servant" application of Henry Hamilton.
Websites, more
• Bureau of Land Management (choose Mississippi & Oktibbeha, under State and County, respectively). Surnames are optional.
• Digital Library on American Slavery (choose Mississippi, under State; enter Oktibbeha, under County.)
• FamilySearch.org (various microfilmed records obtained from Mississippi State Archives)
• Rosenwald Schools (enter Oktibbeha under County, choose Mississippi, under State.)
Articles
• MDAH's Index to African-American Confederate Pension Applications (choose radio button for "County", choose Oktibbeha)
--NB: Bristol (s/b Brister) Elliott, who is not included in this list, is named in the "Servant" application of Henry Hamilton.
Websites, more
• Bureau of Land Management (choose Mississippi & Oktibbeha, under State and County, respectively). Surnames are optional.
• Digital Library on American Slavery (choose Mississippi, under State; enter Oktibbeha, under County.)
• FamilySearch.org (various microfilmed records obtained from Mississippi State Archives)
• Rosenwald Schools (enter Oktibbeha under County, choose Mississippi, under State.)
Articles
Books
• Historical Sketches of Oktibbeha County (1931)
• Grierson's Raid (1954)
• Southern Justice (1965), Leon Friedman, ed.,
-- Oktibbeha County, Mississippi by Jeremiah S. Gutman
• A Black Businessman in White Mississippi, 1886-1974 (1977)
• A Black Physician's Story: Bringing Hope in Mississippi (1985)
• Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, in the Civil War, 1861-1865 (1990)
• Oktibbeha County Plat Directory (1996)
• Images of America: Oktibbeha County (2000)
• Oktibbeha County Plat Directory (1996)
• Images of America: Oktibbeha County (2000)
• Family Maps of Oktibbeha County, Mississippi (2006)
Dissertations
• "Meadow Woods," 1839-1989: A Mississippi plantation (1989)
• The Civil Rights Movement in Starkville, Mississippi: A Local Struggle for Equality (1993)
Freedom Worker Narrative (see Southern Justice (1965) under books)
• Charley Taylor
Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project of the W.P.A. (1936-1938)
• Frank Cannon: Palestine, St. Francis County, AR
• G. Washington Chiles
• D. Davis: of Marvell, Phillips County, AR
• Ollie Davis
• Henry Gibbs
• Sara Green
• Mollie Hatfield
• Harriet (Hollinshed) Sanders
• Nellie James: of Russellville, Pope County, AR
• Jack Jones
• Mandy Jones
• John-Henry Kemp: of Daytona Beach, Volusia County, FL
• Perry Melton: Free Person of Color (1850)
• Henrietta (Outlaw) Chiles
• Reverend Ben J. Robinson
• Mattie Stenston
• Annie Thompson: Fredonia (Biscoe), Prairie County, AR
• Martha Whitfield
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