Welcome to Genealogy Trails Volunteers working to put free historical data online. 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.   Many thanks to previous host Debora Reese for all her hard work on this site! We gladly accept raw data such as biographies, census information, church histories, county histories, court records, marriage/birth/death records, military records, obituaries, old newspaper items...  anything that might help a fellow researcher build their family history. We will be adding new information regularly so keep an eye on us by subscribing to our Mail List that will inform you of new updates or add us to your favorite bookmarks. Please feel free to contact us with your contributions because every little bit helps.  We are grateful for help in making this a resourceful place for Clarke County genealogical and historical information.   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 Nancy. (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. History Clarke County, along with sixteen other Mississippi counties were organized out of Choctaw land in 1833.  The county was named after the prominent Mississippi jurist Joshua G. Clarke.  During the time Clarke County was established, Mississippi was experiencing the biggest population growth it has seen in it's history. Agriculture, especially cotton was the main economy of this rural county.  The Chickasawhay River providing the means of transporting the products by flatboats and keelboats. The steamboat was introduced to the river in the 1840's by help from John J. McRae.  In the 1850's tracks were laid for the railroad which added to the mode of transportation for both shipping goods and venturous travelers. In 1864, General William T. Sherman and Federal Troops vandalized the railroad tracks and it took months to repair the damage in order to provide transportation via the railroad once again. Clarke County borders Alabama in South Central Mississippi with the county seat being the city of Quitman.                           Biographies Births Businesses  Cemeteries Census           Cities & Towns Court Records Deaths Doctors & Midwives   Family Surnames           Family Bibles  Historical Places Land Links Marriages           Military Newspapers Obituaries Photos Pioneer Families           Rivers & Creeks Book Extracts: "A General History of the Baptist Denomination in America and Other Parts of the World" "A History of Mississippi from the Discovery of the Great River by Hernando DeSoto, Including the First Settlement Made by the French, under Iberville, to the Death of Jefferson Davis" Look What's New! Recent Updates     1850 Mortality Schedule Book - History of Baptist Denomination     1813 Tax List Book - History of MS from the Discovery     World War 2 Casualties Bessie Cox Biography       Search Our Clarke County Site powered by FreeFind Clarke County Addresses Clarke County Circuit Clerk - (Marriage Records from 1853- Present) P O Box 216, Quitman, MS  39355, Phone:(601) 776-3111 Clarke County Chancery Court Clerk (Land records, Probate Records, and more)                     P O Box 689, Quitman, MS  39355, Phone: (601) 776-2126 Local Historical Societies Historic Clarke County, Inc. - P O Box 172, Quitman, MS  39355 Stonewall Historical Society The Historical Village of DeSoto Improvement Society (a. k. a DeSoto Historical Society) - 72 Clarion Street, Shubuta, Ms  39360 Neighboring Counties Jasper County          Lauderdale County          Wayne County          Choctaw County, AL                                      This page last updated on -- 17 Jul 2012 Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.