Historic Documents

Woodville Museum

In addition to maintaining a permanent display of documents and artifacts from Wilkinson County's history, the Museum offers for sale many resources for the genealogical researcher.

A partial list of these documents is given here. For complete information and price lists, you are invited to write or call the Museum office:

Wilkinson County Museum
Post Office Box 1055
Woodville, Mississippi 39669
Phone (601)888-3998
David Smith, Museum Director

Books

Listings
The Journal of Wilkinson County History,
Volume III: The Woodville Historic District - photos, indexed.
Mrs. Stella Pitts, November 1992
The Journal of Wilkinson County History Volume II:
Marriage Records from 1800 to 1924
Compiled by Mrs. Linda Gene Carter, November 1991
The Journal of Wilkinson County History Volume I:
Cemetery Records
Edited by Mrs. James V. Gross and Miss Marion Miles, March 1990
The Woodville Republican
Abstracted from the archives of the oldest newspaper in Mississippi, published continuously since 1824. Each of these volumes is arranged chronologically and indexed by surname. Compiled by O'Levia Neil Wilson Wiese
Volume V 1881-1883
Volume IV 1878-1880
Volume III 1848-1855
Volume II 1840-1847
Volume I 1823-1839
List of Officers and Privates CSA 1861-18656
Compiled by W. C. Miller, Woodville, 1903
In One Lifetime
by Verna Arvey The life and times of William Grant Still, America's first major African-American composer, born in Woodville in 1896. The University of Arkansas Press.
Views of a Vanished Community Edited by Marsha Oates, 1996
Jewish Life in Wilkinson County, 1820-1920.
Jews in Early Mississippi By Leo and Evelyn Turitz
Accounts of Jewish settlement across Mississippi. University Press of Mississippi, 1995.
Lost Mansions in Mississippi By Mary Carol Miller
Eighty-five black and white illustrations of 57 ante-bellum homes no longer in existence, including La Grange, Bowling Green and the Grove in Wilkinson County.
Coming of Age in Mississippi
The classic autobiography of growing up poor and black in rural Mississippi. By Centreville native Anne Moody, 1968.

Fiction

Listings
So Red the Rose By Stark Young
Southern Classic Series of 1934 bestseller and 1935 Hollywood film starring Randolph Scott and Margaret Sullavan. Story of the Wilkinson County McGehees.
Sunset at Rosalie By Ann McLaughlin
Fictionalized tale of life and the boll weevil on a McGehee plantation in Wilkinson County circa 1910.

Miscellaneous

Listings
The Great River Road Guide and Map
Points of interest along the way.
Persac Map Plantations along the Mississippi River circa 1858
measures 31" x 53"