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Updated: September 2, 2016

MISSISSIPPI

Adams County – Natchez (Town) Aeronautical Chart Agriculture American Revolution Bicentennial SEE ALSO Newsletters – Mississippi Bicentennial Newsletter Archaeology Archaeology – Coahoma County – The Humber-McWilliams Site Art and Artists Art and Artists – Bolivar County Artists – ANDERSON, Walter BOULDIN, Marshal III BRITT, Sammy – DSU BROWN, Pat – Cleveland BROWN, Vivian – Duncan Businesses – The Gallery, Inc. – Merigold Businesses – McCarty’s Galleries – Merigold FIELD, Mildred Ruoff HAMRICKS, John & Pat – Cleveland HOLCOMBE, Maxine – DSU HOLLINGSWORTH, William Jr. – Jackson HULL, Marie HUTCHISON, Freddie – Cleveland KIRKLAND, Pat KOEHLER, Ron G. – Cleveland JOE, Mamie SEE Artists – RAYBURN, Dale & Mamie Joe JONES, Ted – Benoit LESTER, William Carey – DSU LYTLE, Emma Knowlton – Perthshire MCCARTY, Lee & Pup – Merigold MCDAVID, O. C. – Merigold NORRIS, Carolyn – Cleveland PEPPER, T. C. – Belzoni PERRY, Lallah – DSU RAYBURN, Dale & Mamie Joe SHAMAN, Floyd – DSU Vertical File Index – Mississippi Room 2

Artists – TUPLER, Stan WARD, Johnny – Cleveland WEEKS, Jan Taylor WONG, William B. – Shaw Authors –ALEXANDER, Dr. Margaret Calvary Episcopal Church SEE Bolivar County – Cleveland – Churches – Calvary Episcopal CASTLE, Gladys C. – DSU CRUMP, Louise DAUGHRITY, Kenneth L. – DSU DENNIS, Allen – DSU DOUGLAS, Ellen DOYLE, Andalyn – Cleveland EAST, Charles – Cleveland EDDLEMAN, Stephanie – DSU FAULKNER, William FLOWERS, Paul GIVENS, Bill – Cleveland HAMMETT, Evelyn – Merigold HESSON, James – Cleveland HILL, Ivy G HILL, Rebecca – DSU HOOD – Adams, Rebecca SEE Journalist – Bolivar Commercial – HOOD-Adams, Rebecca HUBBELL, Dr. Macklyn & Elizabeth – Cleveland JACKS, Beth KETHLEY, William M. – DSU LESTER, William, Jr. – DSU SEE – Artists – LESTER, William Carey – DSU LUCAS, Dr. Aubrey Keith MCMURRAY, J. Max – Cleveland MERRILL, Dr. John C. – DSU MILLER, John Ramsey MILLER, Dr. R. Gent – DSU MILLER, Rush G. – DSU MILLS, Elizabeth SEE Authors – MILLS, Gary MILLS, Gary Mississippi Writers in Context Project NEILL, Rosemary Moss MORRIS, Willie ORR, Ellen Vertical File Index – Mississippi Room 3

Authors – PATTERSON, George PEACOCKE, Dr. James (Bolivar County) ROBINSON, Marian – Cleveland ROSENBERG, Jessie RUSSELL, Irwin SHAWHAN, Dorothy Sample – DSU SPEAKES, Larry – Cleveland SEE Journalists – Speakes, Larry – Cleveland SPENCER, Elizabeth SUMNER, Mrs. Cid Ricketts THIGPEN, Samuel Grady THOMAS, Rowan T. – Boyle WALKER, Margaret – DSU (AKA Dr. Margaret Walker Alexander) WEEKS, Linton WILLIAMS, Wirt “Writers in Context” Series Bicentennial SEE ALSO Newsletters – Mississippi Bicentennial Newsletter Blues (Music)

BOLIVAR COUNTY

Bolivar County – Agriculture Airplanes Alligator (Town) Alligator Mounds Benoit (Town) Benoit – Burrus House Beulah (Community) Beulah Crevasse (AKA Merigold Blue Hole) SEE Bolivar County – Merigold Blue Hole (AKA Beulah Crevasse) Bloody Bolivar Board of Supervisors (formerly Board of Police) Bolivar (Town) Bolivar County Historical Society Bolivar County Industrial College/Bolivar County Agricultural School – Box [4 ½” x 10”] Located on Shelf in Microfilm Room Booga Bottom Farm Boyle (Town) Burrus House SEE Bolivar County – Benoit – Burrus House Businesses – Cleveland Cleveland – Baxter Cleveland – Cleveland State Bank Vertical File Index – Mississippi Room 4

Bolivar County – Businesses – Cleveland – MS Power & Light Cleveland – Sterling Store Cleveland – Theaters Merigold Merigold – Winery Rushing Mound Bayou Rosedale Scott – Delta and Pine Land Co. Shelby Cemeteries Census Returns 1840 Census Returns 1850 Centennial Chamber of Commerce, Volumes I and II Chinese (Community) Choctaw Place Names Churches – Aaron Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church (Rosedale) Adath Israel Reform Temple Baptist Association Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church of Rosedale Calvary Baptist Calvary Episcopal (Cleveland) Chinese Baptist Cleveland Church of Christ Covenant Presbyterian (Cleveland) Eastern Missionary Baptist Church (Rosedale) First Baptist (Cleveland) First Baptist (Shelby) First Church of the Nazarene (Cleveland) First Independent Methodist First Memorial Drive Church of Christ First Presbyterian (Cleveland) First United Methodist First United Pentecostal Flowers Chapel Good Shepherd Lutheran (Cleveland) Gospel Temple Missionary Baptist Church (Rosedale) Grace Episcopal (Rosedale) Gunnison Baptist Church Immanuel Baptist (Cleveland) Vertical File Index – Mississippi Room 5

Bolivar County – Churches Morrison Chapel Baptist (Cleveland) North Cleveland Church of Christ Our Lady of Victories Catholic (Cleveland) Pace United Methodist Church Pleasant Green Missionary Baptist Church (Rosedale) Rosedale Methodist Rosedale Presbyterian St. James Baptist (Gunnison) St. Luke Methodist (Cleveland) St. Mark United Methodist St. Matthew Missionary Baptist Church (Rosedale) St. Paul Missionary Baptist (Cleveland) St. Peter’s Rock (Cleveland) Trinity Methodist Shipmans’ Chapel Methodist United Methodist (Rosedale) Yale Street Baptist (Cleveland) Citizens – Benoit – USSERY, JoAnn (727 Home) Citizens – Cleveland – AGUZZI, Victor Julius BISHOP, John “Wattie” BOWEN, Rep. David BRINKLEY, Todd CAPPS, Charles Wilson, Jr. CASSIBRY Family DAVIS, John T. & Family DAY, Russell DEDWYLDER, Dr. Rosier D. FERRIS, Dave “Boo” FLOYD, Dr. John B. & Family GREEN, Edward H. & Family HASTINGS, Lyon HOWORTH, Lucy S. & Somerville Family, Vol. I & II JACKSON, Judge R. E. JACOBS, Charles C. & Family KAPLAN Family LEFTWICH Family McILWAIN Family McLELLAN, J. W. (Mike) MALONE, Harry & Rachel MANNING, Mary MOORE, Amzie Vertical File Index – Mississippi Room 6

Bolivar County – Citizens – Cleveland – NOTT, E. J. & Family PERKINS, Mozel POWE, Coach Sank RAY, John Thomas & Family ROBB, Chester SHANDS, Audley William SHULER, Doxie SMITH, D. M. “Dan” SMITH, John T. & Family SMITH, LePoint Cassibry THWEATT – King Family TIBBS Family TURNER, Aurelius & Family WADE, Margaret SEE Bolivar County – Citizens – Cleveland – WADE, Coach Margaret WARD, Harry Mac WHEELER, Nott Jr. WYATT, Dr. Kent & Family Floreyville – BRUCE, Blanche K. SEE Senators – BRUCE, Blanche Kelso Gunnison – WRENN, George Leonidas SEE Family History – WRENN, George Leonidas & Nora Cousar Wrenn LYTLE, Emma Merigold Merigold – MCCARTY, Lee & Pup SEE Artists – McCarty, Lee & Pup Mound Bayou Rosedale Rosedale – MARTIN, Perry SILLERS Family Shaw Shelby – BAILEY, John T. CHAPMAN, Joel A. HICKS, Trustin C., Jr. WILSON, Gerald (Jazz Legend) Skene – MORGAN Family Skene – PLATNER Family Civil Rights Civil War (War Between the States) Cleveland (Town) Vertical File Index – Mississippi Room 7

Bolivar County – Cleveland – Annual Rice Luncheon Bands Buildings Centennial Celebration Centennial – History Book Churches Cleveland Little Theatre/Cleveland Community Theatre Crosstie Arts Council & Festival Fire Department Gins GRAMMY Museum Hotels & Motels Hubbell Achievement House Industrial Surveys Marshall Plan Mayors Memorial Drive Museums – Martin & Sue King Railroad Heritage Museum October Fest Post Office Radio Stations Community Action Program Concordia (Former Town) Cotton Courthouse Dahomey National Wildlife Refuge Delta Cooperative Farm Delta Library Co-op Delta Library Council Duncan (Town) Duncan – Donelson House Fire Department (Cleveland) Floods – General Floods – Flood of 1927 Friends of the Bolivar County Library System Gins Great River Road State Park Gunnison (Town) Health Clinics SEE Medical Care Facilities Hospitals SEE Medical Care Facilities Hunting and Fishing Vertical File Index – Mississippi Room 8

Bolivar County –Huntington (Community) Indian Point (Historic Site) Italians Jazz Jazz – WILSON, Gerald SEE Bolivar County – Citizens – Shelby – WILSON, Gerald (Jazz Legend) Korean Conflict SEE ALSO Bolivar County – Soldiers Labor Market Information Libraries – Bolivar County Library System, Volumes I and II Libraries – Bolivar County Library System – Library Window Libraries – Bolivar County Library System – LePoint Cassibry Smith Correspondence Libraries – Delta Library Co-op SEE Bolivar County – Delta Library Co-op Libraries – Delta Library Council SEE Bolivar County – Delta Library Council Libraries – Sunflower/Bolivar Library Project SEE Bolivar County – Sunflower/Bolivar Library Project Litton (Community) Local Cookbooks Longshot (Community) Maps Malvina (Community) Medical Care Facilities SEE ALSO Bolivar County – Mound Bayou – Taborian Hospital Mental Health SEE Medical Care Facilities Merigold (Town) Merigold Blue Hole (AKA Beulah Crevasse) Merigold Hunting Club Mexican Military Moonshine Mound Bayou (Town) Mound Bayou – Taborian Hospital Mules Murders Nursing Homes SEE Medical Care Facilities Oral History Transcripts Pace (Town) Pace – Human Development Project Perthshire (Community) Pioneer – Doctors, Lawyers, Merchants & Druggists Vertical File Index – Mississippi Room 9

Bolivar County – Plantations Po’ Monkey’s Juke Joint Postcards Post Offices Poverty Prentiss (Town) Railroads Recurring Events Redistricting Plans Renova (Community) Rosedale (Town) Rosedale – Chinese Rosedale – Churches Rosedale – Port Rosedale – Schools Round Lake (Community) Schools Schools – Cleveland Central High School (Consolidated 2017-18) Schools – Cleveland High School – Newspapers Schools – Shelby High School – Newspapers Shaw (Town) Shelby (Town) Shelby – Newspaper Extractions (Mrs. Allene Yates) Skene (Town) Soldiers Sports Sunflower/Bolivar Library Project Tornadoes Universities – Delta State University, Volumes I and II Universities – Delta State University – Bologna Performing Arts Center Universities – Delta State University – WADE, Coach Margaret Warships – U.S.S. Bolivar Welfare Department Winstonville (Community) World War I SEE ALSO Bolivar County – Soldiers World War II SEE ALSO Bolivar County – Soldiers World War II – Prisoner of War Camps Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs Businesses – Sunflower County – Lewis Grocer Co. & Sunflower Food Stores Choctaw – Culture Churches Vertical File Index – Mississippi Room 10

Citizens – BACHMAN, Reverend George Washington BERRY, General Sidney B. COOPER, Wyatt DAVIS, Jefferson HAMER, Fannie Lou LEFLORE, Greenwood MANNING, Archie MEREDITH, James SAUNDERS, Dr. Paul Hill Tishomingo (Chieftain) Civil War (War Between the States) SEE ALSO Bolivar County – Civil War (War Between the States) Coahoma County – Clarksdale (Town) Cotton Cottonlandia SEE ALSO Newspapers – Leflore County - Greenwood – Cottonlandia Review Court Cases – Ayers v. Fordice Delta Blues Delta Blues Museum Dixie Youth Baseball, Inc. Earthquakes Family History – ARNOLD, Harry Grimm BEDWELL, Wiles K. & Family BEEVERS Family BEST, Abijah & NEWMAN, Pressly Chatman & Descendants COVINGTON, STEPHENS, DARE Located in Mississippi Room Storage BANKSTON, Ignatius & Family BARRY, Thomas F. & Family BURRUS Family CHAMPION Family CHRISTMAS Family CLARK, General Charles & Family CLARK, Frederick & Family COLLINS, L. E. & Family CROSS, Henrietta & Family DAKIN Family DAVIS, Samuel R. & Family DAVIS, Thomas J. & Family DAVIS, Wilson & Eloise (MORTON) DEAN, John H. & Family DEDWYLDER, Isaac W. & Family DEHAY, Procter Sherwood Vertical File Index – Mississippi Room 11

Family History – DONELSON Family DUNGAN Family FIELDS FISHER, John Henry & Lucinda J. Roy (Fisher) FOWLER, Ira & Family FORD, Joseph GILLIAM, James & Frances and Descendants GLASSCO Family GILLIAM Family GILLIAM, James & Frances (Hopkins) GORDON, George W. GRAY, Ralph E. GRIFFIN, James & Elizabeth & Family HANSON / LUSK Family HARRIS, Wanda & Family HIBBARD Family HICKS / GRAHAM Family HILL Family JONES, Ben L. KAMIEN Family KENNEDY Family KERNS, John T. KNOWLTON Family LABON, William LAMPARD Family LISHMAN Family LITTLE, Peter and Family (Natchez) LITTON, Hester & Family (Box [5 ½” x 13”] on Shelf in Microfilm Room with Deeds and Title Abstracts) LOBLEY Family LOGAN, W. M. LOWERY, Wiley G. & Family LUSINGER Family McCLAIN Family McPHEETERS / RAY Family MARKLEY, John and Descendants Mennonite (Lancaster [PA] Mennonite Historical Society) MILLER, Hiram & Sarah & Family MILLER, BENDER, NAIL Family MITCHIE / BREMNER Families MOORE, David & Antecedents Vertical File Index – Mississippi Room 12

Family History – MONTGOMERY, Frank A. & Family MULLINS Family NARON, Irene Mize & Family NASON, Mabel Reed PACE Family PEARMAN, W. L. PERKINS, James & Elizabeth RAY – MCPHEETERS Family ROBERTS – TAYLOR Family ROBERTS, J. C. & Family ROBY Family ROSSER, D. E. & J. D. STEPHENS SEELBINDER Family SHACKELFORD Clan SHEAN Family SHELBY Family SLAYMAKER, Susan Clark & Family SMITH, Lewis Richard & Family SPARKMAN, Dr. L. B. & Family STEELE Family TEEN Family STITES & Related Families: JOHNSON, KEELER, ROMINE, SCOTT, SEATON, WARFIELD, WILSON, Etc. SWITZER Family THOMPSON Family VULLINGS Family WATTS, George & Family WEST, James Clayton & Family WHITAKER Family WIGGINS, Robert Emory WILKINSON Family WRENN, George Leonidas & Nora Cousar Wrenn York County, S.C. (York County Genealogical and Historical Society) Folklore – Center for Southern Folklore Friends of Mississippi Libraries Gambling, Volumes I and II Genealogy

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Genealogy – Journal – Mississippi Genealogical Exchange Journal – The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Newsletter – Bear Tracks Newsletter – Locator SEE Genealogy – Newsletter - Searches Newsletter – Search Light: Light (and Variant Family) Newsletter Newsletter – Searches Newsletter – The Shelby Exchange Newsletter – Tippah County Historical Society Newsletter Newsletter – Twig and Trees Quarterly Organizations – General Society of Colonial Wars Organizations – Mississippi Society of the Sons of the American Revolution Spanish Records General Legislative Investigating Committee Governor’s Mansion Governors Governors – MABUS, Ray Historic Sites SEE Bolivar County – Indian Point (Historic Site) History, Volumes I, II, and III Hurricanes Ice Storm of 1994 Industrial Surveys (Excluding Bolivar County) Jackson County – Pascagoula Journal – Journal of Rev. George Washington Bachman (1839-1916) Journalists – HOOD-Adams, Rebecca – Cleveland – Bolivar Commercial SPEAKES, Larry – Cleveland Kleveland Kloggers Lawrence County Leflore County – Greenwood – Newspaper – Cottonlandia Review SEE Newspapers – Leflore County – Greenwood – Cottonlandia Review Libraries – Carnegie Public Library (Clarksdale) Dancing Rabbit Library Consortium Mississippi Library Commission Patent and Trademark Depository Library SEE Libraries – Mississippi Library Commission Washington County Library System

Magazines – Blue & Gray (Dept. of Public Safety) A Log to the Lower (American Motor Logs) Mississippi Municipalities (Mississippi Municipal Association) Roadways of Mississippi (Office of Public Affairs, MS State Highway Dept.) Today in the New South The United Daughters of the Confederacy Magazine Vertical File Index – Mississippi Room 14

Maps – Historic Marshall County – Holly Springs (Town) Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman Farm) Newsletters – Mississippi History Newsletter (MDAH) Mississippi Bicentennial Newsletter Newspapers – Bolivar County – Clippings Bolivar County – The Bolivar Commercial Bolivar County – Merigold – The Merigold Watch Dog Bolivar County – Mound Bayou – The Voice Bolivar County – Rosedale – The Pied Piper Bolivar County – Pace – Delta-Pace Voice Bolivar County – Scott – The Cotton Farmer Jackson – Diddy Wah Diddy: Ain’t No Town, Ain’t No City... Leflore County – Greenwood – Cottonlandia Review Lawrence County – Monticello – The Monticello Gazette Waterville, Maine – American Nation: A Monthly Journal for the People Organizations – American Association of University Women American Legion Beta Sigma Phi Bolivar County Conservation League Bolivar County Cotton Wives Bolivar County Historical Society City Beautification Commission (Cleveland) The Citizens Council Civic Clubs & Organizations Cleveland Fitness Trail Committee Cleveland Heritage Commission Cleveland Junior Auxiliary Cleveland Rotary Club Cleveland Woman’s Club Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.) Ephfic Women’s Club 4 H Club The Garden Clubs of Mississippi GRAMMY® Museum Grand Temple and Tabernacle Knights and Daughters of Tabor Kiwanis Knights of Pythias Lions Clubs The Miss Delta Rose Society Mississippi Library Association Vertical File Index – Mississippi Room 15

Organizations – National League of American Pen Women – Delta Branch Optimist Club of Cleveland Patriotic American Youth Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative Southland Garden Club Tuesday Club United Daughters of the Confederacy (U.D.C.) Parchman Farm SEE Mississippi State Penitentiary Patents Piney Woods (Region) Plantations Race and Racism Region – Piney Woods SEE Piney Woods (Region) Representatives – MONTGOMERY, G. V. (Sonny) PEARSON, John WHITTEN, Jamie L. Relative Humidity and Dew Point Table Sales Tax Tokens Salute to the of Mississippi Senate – Senators – ALEXANDER, William B. BRUCE, Blanche Kelso EASTLAND, James O. STENNIS, John C. Soldiers Songs (About Mississippi) State Agencies – Mississippi Board of Health SEE Department of Health Mississippi Department of Economic Development Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality Mississippi Department of Health Mississippi Department of Human Services Mississippi Economic Council Mississippi Levee Board Mississippi Public Service Commission Mississippi Research & Development Center Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Stern-Wheelers (River Boats) Storms – Ice SEE Ice Storm of 1994

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Sunflower County – Doddsville (Town) Drew (Town) Moorhead (Town) Ruleville (Town) Television – Educational Tornadoes (Except Bolivar County) Travel Guides & Other Publications Universities – Millsaps College Mississippi College Mississippi State University Mississippi University for Women Vietnam Conflict SEE ALSO Soldiers Warren County – Vicksburg (Town) Warships – Civil War – U. S. S. Cairo Warships – World War II – U.S.S. Bolivar SEE Bolivar County – Warships – U.S.S. Bolivar Washington County – Greenville (Town) Washington County – McClintock Land Deed Water Resources World War I SEE Bolivar County – World War I SEE ALSO Soldiers World War II SEE Authors – THOMAS, Rowan T. – Boyle SEE Bolivar County – Cleveland – Citizens – AGUZZI, Victor Julius SEE Bolivar County – World War II SEE ALSO Soldiers