Search This Site Researchers Have Been to this site since 1998 Site Copyright © 2009. All rights reserved. God Bless America! Please choose one: Lowndes County Home Archives African American Resources B.L. Smith Letters Cemeteries Census Links Churches Death Records Military History & Rosters Columbus-Lowndes Preservation Alliance County Contact/Addresses History MSLownde-List Local Research Links LookUps Maps Miscellaneous Marriages Native American Resources Obituaries Bibles, Photos & Family Bios Professional Researchers Queries Board Research Info Reunions Surnames Towns of Lowndes Wills Neighboring Counties: Clay (North) Oktibbeha (west) Monroe (north of Clay) Noxubee (south)

This County Genealogy website is a labor of love. I created it 12 years ago and it has grown tremendously from the few pages it was back then, due to researchers such as yourself contributing things. It is my personal website, not governed by a Larger Genealogy Company/Entity, and is just a hobby of mine, one of many hobbies. If you would like for me to add things pertaining to families or places connected to this county, please email me. I don't take phone calls regarding my genealogy website. My email address is below. Thank you for understanding. "A History of Columbus,Mississippi During the 19th Century", by Dr. William Lowndes Lipscomb, 1909. Read the full text at http://books.google.com/books?id=LkkUAAAAYAAJ Acknowledgement Columbus, images of Columbus on http://www.thecityofcolumbusms.org/ Lowndes County Courthouse 505 2nd Ave. North Columbus, Mississippi 39701 Telephone: (662) 329-5900 The County Seat of Lowndes County, Mississippi is Columbus, home of the Tennessee Williams Welcome Center, the first home of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams. The 2000 census showed a county-wide population of 61,586. Lowndes County, as recited in the establishing act, was named "in memory of the late William Lowndes"....Map William Jones Lowndes (1782-1822), a lawyer, planter and statesman from South Carolina was a United States Congressman from that State (1811-1822) and an earnest supporter of the War of 1812. Henry Clay called him the wisest man he had ever known in the Congress. Lowndes was the son of Rawlins Lowndes and Sarah Jones Lowndes, of Georgia, a Revolutionary War leader, and he was married to Elizabeth Pinckney, daughter of the Federalist leader Thomas Pinckney. Lowndes worked to achieve a compromise on sectional issues like tariffs and slavery, and assisted in the creation of the second national bank. Lowndes was nominated in 1821 by the South Carolina legislature as a presidential candidate for the election of 1824, but died of illness in 1822. Did your ancestors play a part in the settlement of Lowndes County?? If so, why not submit a biography of that family and even send some pictures to go along with it? Email WHAT'S NEW??? Copyright © 2010. All rights reserved Lowndes, Mississippi Genealogy & History Network http://lowndesmsgenealogy.org Hosted by , , and , Co-County Directors. MSGHN State Director: Everette Carr MSGHN Asst. State Director: Tammy Howard-Westmoreland MSGHN Webmaster: Bill White