alabama and mississippi connections: historical and biographical sketches of families on both sides of the tombigbee river
Mrs. Jacobson here focuses upon families who settled along the Tombigbee River, an area which today occupies all or part of the Alabama counties of Marion, Fayette, Lamar, Tuscaloosa, Greene, Pickens, and Sumter and the Mississippi counties of Lee, Itawamba, Monroe, Webster, Clay, Choctaw, Oktibbeha, Lowndes, Winston, and Noxubee. She covers the founding of each of the seventeen counties comprising the Tombigbee River area, with references to the regions indigenous Creeks, Chocktaws, Chickasaws, and Cherokees; the phases of French, Spanish, and British settlement; and the consolidation of the region under U.S. control following the War of 1812. Doubtless of greatest interest to researches will be the authors genealogical and biographical essays on twenty-two pioneer families of the region.
by Judy Jacobson
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