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Welcome to the MSGenWeb Union County Page.  It is our goal to assist you in discovering your family tree by providing searchable data, links, and resources. 

 
New Additions:
Page Updated
May 27, 2020

Womanless Beauty Review 1955

1920's New Albany School Picture

Presbyterian Church
downtown New Albany
early 20th century


 



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William Faulkner

William Faulkner Image

Did you know that  he was born
 in New Albany, MS
on September 25, 1897, on
Cleveland Street?

 


  Research Contacts

Jennie Stephens Smith Library
Union County Library

P. O. Box 846
219 King St.
New Albany, MS  38652-0393
(622) 534-1991

Union County Historical Society
and Heritage Museum

P. O. Box 657
New Albany, MS  38652-0405
(662) 538-0014

Union County Chancerly Clerk
109 E. Main St.
New Albany, MS  38652
662-534-1900
  


   
New Albany Newspaper



 
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Tippah, Pontotoc , Prentiss, Lee, Lafayette, Marshall, and Benton

 

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Welcome to Union County, MS MSGENWEB


Brief History

Union County was established July 7, 1870, during the reconstruction era, and was named so because of the union of parts of Pontotoc and Tippah Counties.  In 1874, part of Lee County was annexed to it, thus making its present land area of 412 square miles.  Located in the  northeastern part of the state in what is currently known as Furniture Country, it is a place where the culture and history of the Deep South blend with today's progressive ideas. 

Hernando DeSoto was reported to have crossed the Tallahatchie River at the present site of New Albany on his first expedition.

Slightly north of New Albany, the present county seat, was the old Indian trading post of Alberson, called for the first citizen and trader at the place.  Booker Foster and Moses Collins were merchants there in the early days, as were John N. Wiley, and Powers and Morgan, who manufactured wheat fans here from 1839 to 1844.  Moses Collins built a good grist mill and sawmill in 1840, on the present site of New Albany, and the business of the older settlement soon moved to that place.  Not even a trace of the old village is left.  New Albany is on what is known as the "Pontotoc Ridge," the highest land in the state and has a rich farming country all about it.  Wallerville, Blue Springs and Myrtle are other villages in the county.  The streams are the Tallahatchie River, which runs through the center of the county, and its tributary creeks the Oconitahatchie, Wilhite, Locks, Lappatubba, and Jones; the head streams of the West Fork of the Tombigbee River take their rise in the eastern part of the county.


The first courthouse was a large frame building at the west end of Cotton Street, in New Albany.  In 1872, a new, two-story brick courthouse was built on the present courthouse block.  The courthouse was destroyed by fire on October 28, 1881, along with all the county records accumulated since 1870.  A new courthouse was built in 1882, but was found inadequate for the needs of the county offices so it was demolished and the cornerstone for a new building was laid September 5, 1908.   The present courthouse, known for it's beautiful copper roof with it's soaring golden eagle, was completed on June 2, 1909.


Union County Links

Archived Queries
Surnames
Lookups
Deed Books 2 & 3
Photographs of Union County
Family Linage and Union County Family Pages
Union County Bible Records
Union County Gravestones  Now Complete!!! 
Cemeteries in Union County Locations and pictures
Church Records
Marriage Records
New Albany City Page
Civil War Information
Notable People from Union County
Obituaries
Old Letters 
Places in Union County
Union County Libraries

Useful Neighboring County Links
US GEN WEB Census Project for Union County, MS
Marriages Performed by Rev. Jesse T. Cox
Tippah County Confederates Page
Tippah County Land Patents
Company E of the 43rd MS Infantry
Company E of the 43rd MS Infantry Roster
Civil War

African Heritage Links
Slave Voices: Duke University Special Collections
International Society of Sons and Daughters of Slave Ancestry

0ther Research Links
Mississippi Libraries Online
Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Mississippi Census Records at CensusFinder.com
Bureau of Land Management  Land Patents Site
Mississippi DAR
The Tanglefoot Trail - History of the Railroad through Union County

 

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MSGENWEB State Coordinator: Jeff Kemp

Asst. State Coordinator:Denise Wells

Melissa McCoy-Bell
Union County MSGENWEB Coordinator