State & Local, Reference, History, Genealogy, United States 

This old as well as new book contains a reprint of Pike County, Mississippi, 1798-1876; Pioneer Families and Confederate Soldiers, by the late Luke W. Conerly. Also considerable NEW MATERIAL has been added, viz: Roster of Soldiers of War 1812 (with a select group of Veteran Pension Files); 1816 Territorial Census; 1820 Federal Census; Membership of Bogue Chitto (now Crain's Creek) Baptist Church: 1824, 1827, and 1834; membership of New Zion Baptist: 1823, 1830, and 1866; Obituaries from the minutes of Bogue Chitto Baptist Assoc. Minutes, 1872-1910 (includes some obituaries from Lincoln County); Select group of Pike County Obituaries from the New Orleans Christian Advocate, 1851-1910; Correction to Conerly's original Pike County text plus additional genealogical sketches of pioneer Pike County families, such as: Albritton, Alford, Bacot, Bickham, Brumfield, Coney, Connerly, Dillion/Stallings, Ellis, Ellzey, Felder, Holmes, Kemp/Carter, Lee, Morgan, Newsom, Pierce, Pound/Pounds, Rhodus/Hughes, Sandifer, and Varnado. - from Amzon