Welcome to Lawrence 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 Available for Adoption 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.  Founded in 1814 Lawrence County is named for the naval hero James Lawrence. The county seat is Monticello Towns Monticello -- New Hebron -- Silver Creek Unincorporated places Jayess -- Nola Oak Vale (partly in Jefferson Davis County) Oma -- Sontag Lawrence County Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories/Records County Records Court Records Deaths Family Bibles Forgotten Towns Marriages Military Newspapers Obituaries Surnames Wills/Legal Records  Website Updates: 13 Nov 2011 Added Cemeteries: Old Silver Creek, Stephens 13 Nov 2011 Updated Cemeteries: Benson, Bethel Baptist Church, Dampeer, Hepzibah, New Hebron, Oak Grove Pentacostal, and Wanilla 15 Apr 2011 Added Cemetery: Smith (near New Hope) 31 Oct 2010 Added Cemetery: Dampeer 28 Oct 2010 Added Cemeteries: Benson, Bethel Baptist Church, Hepzibah, New Hebron, Oak Grove Pentacostal, and Wanilla 28 Oct 2010 Updated Cemetery list Jan 2009: COOPER bio; Bahala Chapel Cemetery Burials; WW2 Casualties Obits, marriage announcements, gossip news items from 1912, Crime News item Surrounding Counties * Simpson County (northeast) * Jefferson Davis County (east) * Marion County (southeast) * Walthall County (south) * Lincoln County (west) * Copiah County (northwest) Visit our MS State Site Visit our National Site This page last updated on -- 15 Apr 2011 Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.