Welcome to Lowndes 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 1830, Lowndes County is named for U.S. Congressman William Jones Lowndes. Its county seat is Columbus. Friendship Cemetery, in Columbus MS, was the site of one of the first recorded observances of Memorial Day.  It is reported that in late April 1866, a group of Columbus women went to the cemetery to honor those who died at the Battle of Shiloh.  The women were impartial in honoring the dead.  They placed flowers on the graves of both the Confederate and Union soldiers.  Their action is said to have inspired Francis Miles Finch's poem "The Blue and the Gray". Cities, Towns and Other Communities City: Columbus Towns: Artesia -- Caledonia -- Crawford CDP's: Columbus AFB -- New Hope Unincorporated places: Bent Oak -- Billups -- Flint Hill -- Forreston -- Kolola Springs -- Mayhew -- McCrary -- Penns -- Plum Grove -- Steens -- Trinity -- Wells -- Whitebury -- Woodlawn Ghost town: Plymouth 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: 25 Sep 2011: Added Added article about shootout on street 25 Sep 2011: Added Added will for Willeford 25 Sep 2011: Added Added biographies for Banks, Barry, Meek, Sims & Tucker 25 Sep 2011: Added Added Obituaries for Arnold & Ellis 5 Mar 2011: Added Railroad Survey Story 23 May 2010: Added Cobb Obit 12 Nov 2009: Added Cemetery Index Jan 2009: World War 2 Casualties 1827-1880 Births from Bethel Presbyterian Church Records; Obits for Sloan, Arnold, Gibbs, Taylor; Extinct Towns Surrounding Counties * Noxubee County (south) * Oktibbeha County (west) * Clay County (northwest) * Monroe County (north) * Lamar County, Alabama (northeast) * Pickens County, Alabama (southeast) Visit our MS State Site Visit our National Site This page last updated on -- 25 Sep 2011 Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.