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Issaquena County, Mississippi
Genealogical info Adams County, MS
Genealogical info counties in MS other than Adams
Find individuals buried in the Natchez City Cemetery
Info about Katharine Surget Minor
The papers of Joseph Dunbar Shields
Jefferson County, MS genealogical info(includes info on the Hunt family)
Bibliography - 10/20/11
Southern Plantations
Early Settlers of Jefferson County, Mississippi
Information about the USS Shields and photos of her christening in 1944. This ship was named for Purser Thomas Shields (1783-1827)
A lovely piece about the life of Nuala O'Donnell and US Senator Claiborne DeBorda Pell (married 1944). Senator Pell is a descendant of Ann Beaver and Robert Dunbar through their son William Henry Dunbar and his wife Martha "Patsy" Willis of "Dunbarton Plantation" near Natchez, MS.
Battle in September 1900 at Pulang Lupa in the Philippines, in which Devereux Shields was a hero.
Listing of those interred in several private cemeteries in the Natchez area, including "Elgin" and "The Forest"
History of the Maison Hospitaliere in New Orleans - a refuge for penniless widows following the Civil War. Virginia Chotard Dunbar, the childless widow of James Currell, died there 01 May 1922.
Early settlers of Church Hill, MS - aka The Maryland Settlement - Shields, Wood, Allein, Payne, etc.
Papers of Joan Balfour Payne at the University of Southern Mississippi