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.

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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
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New Albany City Page
Civil War Information
Notable People from Union County
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Places in Union County
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Useful Neighboring County Links
1850 Pontotoc Co. Census
1860 Pontotoc Co. Census
1840 Tippah County Census
1850 Tippah County Census
1866 Tippah County State Census
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
MSGenWeb- African American Resources 
Slave Voices: Duke University Special Collections
International Society of Sons and Daughters of Slave Ancestry

0ther Research Links
Mississippi Libraries Online
Mississippi Census Records at CensusFinder.com
Bureau of Land Management  Land Patents Site
Mississippi Civil War WWW Board Great links for searchin!
Pioneer Publishing Company Many MS books to purchase!
Mississippi DAR
The Tanglefoot Trail - History of the Railroad through Union County

 

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