Prentiss County Genealogical and Historical Society

09/26/2024

Our society is not currently active and will not be accepting membership dues. We are in the process of contacting rootsweb who hosts our website to have the membership page and order forms taken down. Thank you.

03/09/2023

The Prentiss County Genealogical and Historical Society will hold its first meeting since 2019 at the George E. Allen library on Tuesday, March 21st at 6PM. All are welcome!

03/01/2022

We have sold all of our last copies. We do not mind printing more but I need to get a good estimate of how many to print. If you still would like a copy, please comment below. If you sent a check, those have been honored and have been mailed.

02/21/2022

We will be at Main Street Office at the depot in Booneville on Wednesday from 10-2 if you would like to come by and pick up a book. Just for clarification this is a reprint of the Howard Carpenter book written in 1956. If you would like for us to mail you one, you can send a check for $25 which includes postage to PCGHS, PO Box 491, Booneville MS 38829.

02/04/2022

The is scheduled to be released on April 1, 2022, and we have the information and resources to get you ready.

The National Archives has launched a new 1950 Census webpage on Archives.gov. This page will help users stay up to date and informed on the latest updates. Some of its features are questions asked on the census, enumerator training videos, finding aids, and published statistical data.

Learn more about what the National Archives is doing to expand access and involve users during this once-a-decade records release. https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/1950-census-resources?utm_source=LinkedIn&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=1950Census&utm_content=nan

02/02/2022

Mr. Grady Wigginton was very active with our society for the last several years. He will be greatly missed. Please keep the family in your prayers.

https://www.watersfuneralservice.com/obituaries/Grady-Wigginton?obId=23887050 #/celebrationWall

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09/14/2021

Today we say goodbye to one of our own, Mike Garvin. He and Diane have been at the center of our society since they joined back in 2007 or so. Please keep Diane and family in your prayers.

https://www.keslerfuneralhome.com/obituary/MichaelMike-Garvin

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07/30/2019

We have added the following obituaries to our website's obituary page at: http://sites.rootsweb.com/~mspcgs/obituaries_pages/obituaries_index_page.htm

Johnnie Barnes
Emma Bonds
Josh Brigman
Dorothy "Dot" Bishop
David Ray Brown
Clinton Burns
L.C. Cagle, Sr.
Edna Caver
Danny Cartwright
James E. Champion
Rickey Collier
Elizabeth Criswell
Mary Ann Crow
Maxine Davis
Jennifer Denson
Dorothy Bishop
Winford Moore Downs
Ann Gann
Liz Gann
Will George
Zada Goldman
Carl Green
Gerald Green
Vera Green
J.W. Greene
Allen Hapner
Irene Hare
Ralph Hare
Luther Harris
John Hathcock
Bertha Harper
Kevin Henderson
Ruby Henderson
Lema Herring
Jimmy Hill
Jessie Hisaw (2 obits)
Mrs. Jess Hisaw
Nonnie Hisaw
Bobbie Hoard
Mattie Hooper
Larry Hopkins
Max Hughes
Mark Hughes
Mickey Hughes
Margie Hughey
Zelma Jackson
Abe Johnson
Jeff B Johnson
Joseph Johnson
Nell Johnson
Joe Donald Jones
Charlene Kelso
Dick Lowery
Clinton Lentz
Melvin Massey
Low Ree Roberts
Russell Pace
Bertha Lee "Winky" Pannell
Guy Pardue
Minnie Inez Patton
James Olin Peach
Minnie Earl Phillips
James "Jimmy" Pharr
Debra Pippin
Mary Victoria Plunkett
Maurine Prentice

A big thank you to our awesome volunteers for helping transcribe these! Several more are already transcribed and will be uploaded to the website as time permits.

The RootsWeb Wiki will offer you research articles as well as The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy and Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources

06/26/2019

We have added the following obituaries to our website's obituary page at: http://sites.rootsweb.com/~mspcgs/obituaries_pages/obituaries_index_page.htm

•Bobbie Badggett
•Jake Bailey
•Maude Ridge Barnes
•Elease Beckham
•Peggy Boland
•Annie Bolt
•John Boren
•Dr. Mary Ruth Botts
•Martha Bridges
•J.D. Bryant Jr.
•James Robert Buchanan
•Cora Bullard
•Thomas Alan Byram
•Howard Long
•Mary Sue McGill
•Boyd McGlaun
•Jeffrey Knight McGrew
•Zela McKinney
•Evelyn Moore
•Jimmy Moore
•Jerry Moorman
•Wade Murley
•Aubrey Murphy
•Dollie E. Muphy
•N.B. Murphy
•Thad Murphy
•Harley Muse
•Jewel McElroy
•G.E. Morgan
•Judy Morrisson
•Mildred Tays

A big thank you to Janet Hindman for helping transcribe these.

Many more coming soon!

Tupelo Daily Journal, Booneville Funeral Home, Cay Devin, Sandra Ford Bettie Parker Gustafson, Gail Hall, Sue Hardy, Penny Johnson, Ruby Rorie, Bill Scroggin, Karen Sedlecky, Faye Sparks, Nancy F. Wike.

06/22/2019

Several large bags of clipped obituaries were recently donated to the society. We are looking for volunteers to help transcribe them with us. We will upload them to Dropbox then share the Dropbox file with you. If interested, please just message us your email address and we will send you an invite. Thank you.

02/18/2019

There will not be a meeting tonight February 18th at the library.

02/03/2019

We are saddened to announce the passing of one of our charter members - Mrs. Melba Isbell.

Mrs. Isbell passed away Saturday, February 2, 2019, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. She was born May 4, 1939 to J.K. Kennedy and Elma Tapp Kennedy. She was a member of Siloam United Methodist Church.

A Celebration of Life will be at 2:00 P.M. Monday, February 4, 2019 at McMillan Funeral Home with Bro. Rod Taylor and Bro. Cody Stephen officiating. Burial will be in Siloam Cemetery.

She is survived by her husband, Webber Isbell of Marietta; sisters-in-law, Maxine Martin, Sue Rhoads (Fred) and Jane Martin; special niece, Ann Warren (Kenneth); a host of nieces, nephews and cousins and special friend and caregiver, Ruby Rorie.

She was preceded in death by her parents.

Pallbearers will be her nephews. Honorary pallbearers will be Jerry Slack, Kenneth Warren and Richard Ragin. Visitation will be from 12:00 P.M. to 2:00 P.M. Monday, February 4, 2019 at McMillan Funeral Home.