Welcome
to
the
MSGenWeb Benton County Page. It is my goal to
assist
you in discovering |
Benton County was formed in 1870, when reconstructionist laws came into effect after the Civil War. Benton was originally Tippah and Marshall County up until that time. The town of Ashland is the county seat and location of the Court House. Benton County borders with Marshall County on the West, Tippah County on the East, Union and Lafayette on the South, Hardeman and Fayette Counties in Tennessee on the North. The land that makes up Benton belonged to the Chickasaw Indians before settlement. In 1834, the Treaty of Pontotoc was signed between the State of Mississippi and the Chickasaw Nation allowing the purchase of land by white settlers. Nathan Bedford Forrest, a general in the Civil War was from Salem, MS, located in what is now Benton County. ![]() Old Court House - 2006 Photo sent in by: Bill Webb
New
Additions!
Spring Hill School
Students ca. 1914 |
Links
that include Benton County Information
Tippah
County Cemeteries (contains some from Benton Co)
Tippah
County Confederates
The
1840
Census
Records
of Tippah County
The
1850
Federal
Census
of Tippah County
The
1866 Census Records
The
Tippah County Marriage Records
Search
Tippah County
Old
Map Collection of Tippah, Union and Pontotoc Counties
Wolf
River Conservancy
![]()
Join Our Mailing List
Keep up to date on the additions to this page, and get to know other Benton County researchers. To join this list, please click on this link, [email protected] , type in the body of the message the word "subscribe." DO NOT type any other text in the body of the message or your request will not be processed. To unsub, go to the same address and type the word "unsubscribe."We look forward to meeting you!
A member of the USGenWeb Project
This space was generously donated
by Rootsweb. To research the free information provided by Rootsweb/ Ancestry please click on the link above.
Your comments and suggestions are welcome. If you know of a link that would be helpful to Benton County Researchers, please send me a note. If you have questions regarding you ancestry please post a query, the surname, or post questions to the Benton County Mailing List. If you have information that you would like to share by adding it to this page, please contact me.
Sign
our
GuestbookView
Our
Guestbook
Melissa
McCoy-Bell
Benton
County MSGENWEB Coordinator
MSGENWEB
State
Coordinator:
Jeff Kemp
Asst.
State Coordinator:Denise
Wells and Ann Geoghegan
© 1997-2011, by Melissa McCoy-Bell. All rights reserved.