This county was named for the Choctaw word "nakshobi" meaning "to stink. Clerk Chancery Court has divorce, probate and land records from Information for this chart was taken from various sources, often containing conflicting dates. For a complete list of populated places, including small neighborhoods and suburbs, visit Hometown Locator. The following are the most historically and genealogically relevant populated places in this county: [6].
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Men in Noxubee County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company within a regiment that originated in their county. Listed below are companies that were specifically formed in Noxubee County:.
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There may be gaps of several years. For more information, see Mississippi Taxation. Its county seat is Macon. The name is derived from the Choctaw word nakshobi meaning to stink. Noxubee County is located in the fertile prairie region of eastern Mississippi, on the Alabama border.
It was established December 23, , and its name is derived from an Indian word, as are many of our geographical names. It is one of the sixteen counties formed from the Choctaw cession of and its original boundaries were as follows:. The original limits as thus defined have not been changed. The total area of the county is about 18 townships, or square miles. Prior to the formation of Noxubee county, on December 23, , which was the first of the counties to be "given a name", the land was considered to be in Lowndes county.
Lowndes county was originally drawn out of Monroe county in January of Then, at the end of , December 6th, it was extended to cover the land which was to become Noxubee county.
One might be aware that if they are looking for records between and for persons thought to be in Noxubee county, Lowndes county is where they should be searching. As in many black-majority counties, Noxubee had a large number of tenant farmers. At the same time, Noxubee remained an important center for agricultural production, ranking first in the state in production of corn and oats, tenth in cotton, and sixth in the total value of farms.
In addition, the county was home to 89 foreign-born residents, most of them from Ireland and Germany. The county also had an extraordinary number of African American tenant farmers more than 3, but only African American farm owners. African Americans outnumbered whites by a ratio of four to one. In many ways, the demography of this East Mississippi county resembled a Delta county, with a large but decreasing African American population and a small white population.
Still an agricultural county with more than 4, farms, Noxubee employed industrial workers. Notable natives of Noxubee County include poet T. Hummer, born in Macon, the county seat, in , and home demonstration leader Sadye Hunter Wier, who was born in and attended Noxubee Industrial School, founded by her parents, Samuel and Minnie Hunter.
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