Walthall County, Mississippi Bibliography of Published Sources

Walthall County, Mississippi

Bibliography of Published Sources


Listed below are books on Walthall County records and families. If you know of additional titles that should be added to this list, please contact me. Because Walthall County was not formed until 1910, many sources of interest to researchers in Walthall County will be found on the
Pike County Bibliography of Published Sources Page

Addresses are available at the link for the publisher of the books listed or for a book seller which lists the title in their current catalog. When contacting one of these sources by snail-mail to inquire about the availability and cost of a title, please remember to enclose a SASE with your request.


Search an On-Line Card Catalog for a library near you or your research destination for any of the books listed below. By selecting a state from the list at this link, you will be then be able to select from the list of libraries in that state which are part of the Webcats system and search their on-line card catalog.


Bibliography of Published Sources


Source Records

Record TypeTitle
Church Records Abstracts of Obituaries from the Minutes of the Magee's Creek Baptist Association (Mississippi and Louisiana), 1882-1924, compiled by E. Russ Williams, Jr., 1978.
Cemetery Records The Tombstone Inscriptions of Walthall County, Mississippi, William and Irma Lampton, 1976.
Mississippi Confederate Grave Registrations, Vol. I A-L, Vol. II M-Z, compiled by Betty Couch Wiltshire,
Heritage Books, Inc., 1991.

Family Histories

Family Title
Beard Aaron Beard and Kizziah (Carter) Beard of South Mississippi, Janis Pearson Stringfield, Columbia, Mississippi, 1993. (Pike and Walthall Co. allied families: Boyd, Carr, Deer, Dunaway, Rushing, Thornhill.)
Conerly Descendants of John Conerly ( -1751) NC and Cullen Conerly (ca 1745-1811) NC to the Present 1986, William and Irma Lampton, 1986.
Foil Foyle (Foil) Genealogy, compiled by Zuma Fendlason Magee and Aletha Barker Hamiter, 1956.
Fortenberry The Fortenberry Families of Southern Mississippi, by Adrianne Fortenberry Criminger, Southern Historical Press, 1984.
McGehee/Magee McGehee Descendants, Three Volumes, by Ethel Woodall Grider and Jane N. Grider, Winder, Georgia, 1987, 1989, 1991.
Pigott Descendants of John Pigott the Elder, by Frank L. Brown Jr., Kentwood LA, 1976.
Reeves Bringing in the Reeves, Lottie Magee Miller, Tylertown, Mississippi, 1983.
Rushing Matthew Rushing Descendants in South Mississippi 1810-1995, Helen Lyndola Rushing Jones, Houston, Texas, 1995.
Stovall The Stovall Family and Related Lines, Volume II,
Lyle Keith Williams, 1984.

Addresses of publishers/sources for books listed above:

Heritage Books, Inc.
1540-E Pointer Ridge Place
Bowie, MD 20716
1-800-398-7709

Helen Rushing Jones
1758 Maux Drive
Houston, TX 77043-3318

Janis Pearson Stringfield
P. O. Box 1336
Columbia, MS 39429

E. Russ Williams, Jr.
Williams Historical and Genealogical Publications
514 Cole Avenue
Monroe, LA 71203

Lyle Keith Williams
5000 Rock River Drive
Fort Worth, TX 76103-1226


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This page was last updated 5/29/2004