Tallahatchie County (LST-1154)(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
During the first part of 1964, TallahatchieCounty was overhauled at an Italian shipyard, Societa Escercizio Bocini Napoletani, and then returned to operations in support of the 6th Fleet.
During September 1964, she participated in an advance base exercise in conjunction with NATO Operation "Fallex." In February 1965, the advance base ship was called upon to salvage a jet aircraft which had splashed in shallow waters off the coast of Libya.
TallahatchieCounty operated out of Naples until 15 January 1970 when she was decommissioned and struck from the Navy list.
A History of Tallahatchie county State of Mississippi(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
On November 21, 1958, twenty-nine women of TallahatchieCounty came together in a common purpose to establish the fiftieth chapter of the Mississippi Society of Daughters of the American Revolution.
Tallahatchie, a Choctaw Indian name, meaning "Rock of Waters," was given by the Indians to the river that rises in TippahCounty and flows 301 miles Southwest and joined by the Coldwater, the Yalobusha and the Greenwood rivers, forms the Yazoo.
In 1891 a post office was established at Sumner and in 1902 the county was divided, and a courthouse built at Sumner, housing the records of lands in TallahatchieWest of a line almost parallel with the TallahatchieRiver.
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Tallahatchie is also the name of a county in northwestern Mississippi.
Renamed Tallahatchie on 26 January and designated "tinclad gunboat no. 46," the sidewheeler was held at Cincinnati for a fortnight by ice in the Ohio River before she could be moved downstream to Cairo, Ill., to be fitted out and lightly armored.
She served with this force for the duration of hostilities, operating off the passes of the Mississippi and in Mississippi Sound and Lake Pontchartrain.
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Even though this book is primarily cemetery inscriptions, the authors go beyond the norm by including information on the towns in TallahatchieCounty, folklore, and stories by past and present residents of the county, making this a most entertaining as well as informative history of the county.
It is possible to locate a free person on the TallahatchieCounty, Mississippicensus for 1860 and not know whether that person was also listed as a slaveholder on the slave census, because published indexes almost always do not include the slave census.
Those who have found a free ancestor on the 1860 TallahatchieCounty, Mississippicensus can check this list to learn if their ancestor was one of the larger slaveholders in the County.
African American descendants of persons who were enslaved in TallahatchieCounty, Mississippi in 1860, if they have an idea of the surname of the slaveholder, can check this list for the surname.
Elsewhere in TallahatchieCounty, of course, it tended to become the usual matter of a white man and a fl man.
TallahatchieCounty whose population is more than two-thirds Negro, boasts little industry, outside of an occasional company allied with its agricultural interests.
Carl Strider, who owns one of Tallahatchie’s largest plantations on which there are seven Negro shacks each bearing one letter on top spelling out S-T.R-I-D.E-R, is not a peckerwood and certainly not a nigger-lover, and in TallahatchieCounty it is hard to question him.
Mississippi are the county seats.Tillatoba was a county seat for a while, but in 1837 the Board of Police found it necessary to abandon Tillatoba and seek another location.
Lela Evans and I (Helen Staten Arnold) are volunteers and have adopted TallahatchieCounty.
On December 3, 2002, Tallahatchie General Hospital earned a 2002 Rural Health Care Award for its work in converting to a Critical Access Hospital (CAH).
This greatly improves the financial condition of the hospital and allows it to improve its services and maintain its presence in the community.
Tallahatchie General Hospital is one of only nine hospitals in the state that have been officially designated as CAH hospitals.
Five people have been arrested in the murder of a teenager whose body was found in a wooded area of TallahatchieCounty.
One TallahatchieCounty gardener has developed a garden with old items that would make many people clean out their attics and garages in search of ornamental items to create unique displays.
The cases, by county or city: TallahatchieCounty: A privately run jail in Charlestonfired three officers for excessive use of force after the beating of an inmate Feb.
A once thriving section of Little TallahatchieRiver is now a 23-mile-long shiftless, partly dried-up body of water known as the old Little Tallahatchie riverbed.
It is virtually a liquid highway sending drainage water and the water of the Puskus and Cypress creeks on a swift journey toward the Sardis Reservoir.
Renee Turner, study manager of the little Tallahatchie re-river project and employee of the Corps of Engineers' Planning Division, said it was likely the corps had made a mistake in diverting the creeks into the channel back in 1930.
As a result of these findings, Homer L. Wilkes, State Conservationist has determined that the preparation and review of an environmental impact statement are not needed for this project.
Hubbard and Murphree Creeks Watershed, TallahatchieCounty, Mississippi Notice of a Finding of No Significant Impact The project concerns a watershed plan to provide supplemental flood protection and reduce threat to loss of life from sudden dam failure to the residents of the Hubbard and Murphree Creeks Watershed and others.
Tallahatchie Co. MSGenWeb Project Celebrates(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Before I left I had asked a volunteer to look-up any JONES listed in the History of Tallahatchie Co. She told me there was a Jacob C. Jones.
Thanks for a wonderful job and a lot of hard work, TallahatchieCounty is one of the best sites I have seen for helpful information.
RAINEY, LAUGHLIN, JONES, OAKES Thanks to you I have found many more of my relatives in Tallahatchie Co. MS.My father was from there and I have visited there to find family connections but the data that you have put on the WEB has helped me much more than I could do there.
This event is mentioned in another song, "Freedom Highway," by the Staple Singers, in the lines, "Found dead people in the forests, TallahatchieRiver and lakes/Whole world is wondering, what's wrong with the United States?"