The USGenWeb Project is a national volunteer effort to provide a WWW page for genealogical data for every county in the United States. Begun in March 1996 in Kentucky, the project is growing daily, and has already provided many genealogists with clues to finding their ancestors. Volunteers coordinate the collection of databases and generally oversee the contents of the individual county web pages. This Sharkey County page is part of the MSGenWeb Project, which is part of the USGenWeb Project. If you would like to contribute your information to this page, please let me know. If you are interested in adopting a county, please contact Jeff Kemp, MSGenWeb coordinator.
Lying in the
Mississippi Delta, in the western part of the State, Sharkey County was
organized March 29, 1876, and was named for Judge William L. Sharkey, provisional
governor of the State in 1865. It was originally carved from territory
belonging to the counties of Warren, Washington and Issaquena. In 1918,
it relinquished a part of its area to the new county of Humphreys, to the
northeast. Deer Creek runs entirely through Sharkey County. It embraces
a land area of 422 square miles, and is bounded on the north by Washington
County, on the east by Humphreys
and Yazoo counties, on
the south by Issaquena
County and on the west by Issaquena and Washington.
Sharkey County Message Board
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