Welcome to Lafayette County MS History and Genealogy Presented by Mississippi Genealogy Trails a part of Genealogy Trails Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy Your state host is Gene Phillips Please send any data submissions to me. I will upload them as soon as possible. This Site is maintained by Gene Phillips Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as it can be. If you are interested in joining Genealogy Trails, view our Volunteer Page for further information and then contact Kim. (Enough knowledge to make a basic webpage and a desire to transcribe data is required) We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for folks. All data we come across will be added to this site. We thank you for visiting and hope you'll come back again to view the updates we make to this site. If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to any or all of our mailing lists Mississippi is covered under our "Southern" States mailing list. Lafayette County was established February 9, 1836, and was named in honor of a distinguished friend of the American Republic, the Marquis de Lafayette, a French military hero and American general who fought during the American Revolutionary War. It is one of the dozen counties carved from the Chickasaw Indian lands in northern Mississippi four years after the treaty of Pontotoc in 1832. This county is located in the north-central part of the State, and is bounded on the north by Tate, Marshall, and Benton; on the east by Union and Pontotoc; on the south by Calhoun and Yalobusha; and on the west by Panola. It has an area of 720 square miles. The principal streams are Tallahatchie River on the northern and Yockana River on the southern borders of the county, and Yellow Leaf, Clear Cypress, and Tobytubby Creeks. The general topographical features of the county are rolling uplands, rising in some parts to abrupt hills. There are also many fertile valleys in its borders. The county seat is Oxford. [Source: "Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society", 1913 - from Cathy Danielson] Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories/Records County Records Court Records Deaths Family Bibles Extinct Towns Marriages Military Newspapers Obituaries Surnames Wills/Legal Records  Website Updates Last Update 24 Jun 2009 Surrounding Counties * Marshall County (north) * Union County (northeast) * Pontotoc County (southeast) * Calhoun County (south) * Yalobusha County (southwest) * Panola County (west) * Tate County (nothwest) Visit our MS State Site Visit our National Site                     This page last updated on -- 24 Jun 2009 Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.