This is an effort to duplicate the wills and inventories of early Amite County and digitize the images so that historians and genealogists can access them easily via the World Wide Web. I have copies of over 150 wills and estate papers from 19th and early 20th century Amite County residents and I am working to make them available to a wider audience. For a couple of years now they have been sitting in the bottom of my closet waiting for the odd moment when I can re-evaluate their contents. Two years of library school have heightened my sense that information is not proprietary. I also feel, as I have for several years now, the Amite County's role in Mississippi's and the South's history and development has been undervalued and all but ignored.
TENS OF THOUSANDS of Americans today are descended from individuals
who lived and labored in Amite County, Mississippi. AMITE COUNTY
is part of their story.
Contents of Will Books I & II as per my research files
Images of wills scanned from photocopies--remarkably legible, considering
everything. While the act of photocopying directly was probably not
very good for the willbooks themselves, they were in pretty good condition.
The same cannot be said of the actual wills and inventories on file.
Years of decay and periodic mis-handling (William Longmire's 1842 will
had actually been scotch-taped some years back and the adhesive is causing
the paper to disintegrate even more rapidly) have made the original papers
fragile. If anyone is planning to take a visit to the Amite County
courthouse in Liberty to do some research, I recommend looking at the books
rather than the actual files--the books are legal and verified copies and
they can withstand the use much more readily.
There are a few stray marks visible on these
images--most are from the photocopies, but a few were from the originals--probably
by long-ago visitors, but NOT by ME. .
Will
of Julia Anderson 1902
Will
of Louisa Bates 1909
Will
of Elizabeth Craft 1854
Will
of Aletha Dixon 1858
Will
of Rebecca Galtney 1881
Will
of Elizabeth Johns 1859
Will
of Ann Reams 1851
Will
of Elizabeth Reid 1919
Will
of Nancy Sites 1871
Will
of Nancy Sleeper 1860
Will
of Amanda Spurlock 1907
Will
of Victoria Street 1858
Will
of Susan Webb 1910
Will
of Nancy Williford 1840
Will
of Elizabeth Wren 1843
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