Welcome to Jasper 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 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. 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. Jasper County was formed in 1833 from the middle section of what been Jones County. It was named for Sgt. William Jasper who first distinguished himself in the defense of Fort Moultrie in 1776. When a shell from a British warship shot away the flagstaff, he recovered the flag, raised it on a temporary staff, and held it under fire until a new staff was installed. Sgt. Jasper was killed in the Siege of Savannah in 1779. [Source: wikipedia.org] The county seats are Bay Springs and Paulding Cities Bay Springs Towns Heidelberg -- Louin -- Montrose Unincorporated places Baxter -- Garlandville -- Moss -- Paulding Rose Hill -- Stringer -- Vossburg Jasper County Online Data BIRTH DEATHS MARRIAGES CENSUS BIOGRAPHIES HISTORY OBITUARIES NEWSPAPER DATA MILITARY DATA WILLS  CEMETERIES EXTINCT TOWNS Website Updates: 10 May 2013 Added the following News Story: Marsh Cook Shot & Killed 16 Apr 2013 Added the following Biography: Drury Allen Morris 16 Apr 2013 Added the following Wills on Record in Jasper Co. Before 1905 16 Apr 2013 Added the following Obituaries: Brown, Denson, Eddins, Garner, Holder, Lynch, Moore, Powel, Price, Ruffin-Price, Thigpen, Tilman, Turner & Windham 16 Apr 2013 Added the following Crime Stories: Killed From Ambush, Boyd Trial, Frank Everett Shot, A Nameless Outrage, Jasper County Murder (4 parts) 26 Feb 2013 Updated the following Cemeteries: Antioch, Bethel, Calvary Baptist Church, David Read, Enon, Liberty Baptist Church & Vernon 26 Feb 2013 Added Dixon Family and Mulberry Cemeteries 23 Feb 2013 Added Lake Como Cemetery 15 Oct 2012 Updated the following Cemeteries: Calvary Bapstist, County Line, Edon, & Fair Ridge 19 Aug 2012 Added or updated the following Cemeteries: Bogue Homa Community, Mount Olive, Shady Grove, Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church, Hopewell Baptist Church, Hopewell Memorial, Hopewell United Methodist Church, Jerusalem Baptist Church, Memory Gardens, Paulding, Philadelphia, Pleasant Grove, Salem Baptist Church, Shelby-McAlpine, Vernon, Vossburg, 09 Dec 2011 Added the following Cemeteries: Hopewell Baptist Church, Hopewell Memorial, Hopewell United Methodist, Jerusalem, Jerusalem Missionary Baptist, Memory Gardens, Mount Olive, Paulding, Philadelphia, Pleasant Grove, Salem Baptist, Shady Grove, Shelby (aka McAlpine), Vernon, Vossburg 09 Dec 2011 Updated Salem Missionary Baptist Cemetery 11 Nov 2011 Added the following Cemeteries: Crawford Family, Culpepper Family, Curry Family, Dease, Knight, Jeffrey Knight, Leona, McFarland, William Chapel. 11 Nov 2011 Updated Corinth Baptist Church Cemetery 11 Nov 2011 Updated David Read Cemetery 11 Nov 2011 Updated Holders Cemetery 02 Nov 2011 Added the following Cemeteries: Anderson Family, Bingham Family, Blue Mountain, Bogue Homa Community, Bonner Family, Buckley Family, Calvary BC, Clayton Family, Community Center, Concord BC, Good Hope BC, Holders, Liberty BC, Union Seminary 02 Nov 2011 Updated Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery 02 Nov 2011 Updated Beaver Creek MC Cemetery 02 Nov 2011 Updated Bethany BC Cemetery 02 Nov 2011 Updated Old Ebenezer Church Cemetery 02 Nov 2011 Updated Old Salem Cemetery 02 Nov 2011 Updated Pisgah Cemetery 26 Aug 2010 Added Pisgah Cemetery 25 Aug 2010 Added St Michael Catholic Cemetery 25 Aug 2010 Added Tally Family Cemetery 25 Aug 2010 Updated Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery 11 Dec 2009 Added Mount Pisgah Baptist Cemetery 11 Dec 2009 Updated Ebenezer Cemetery 30 Oct 2009 Added the following Cemeteries: Providence, Salem Missionary Baptist, Saint Peter, Success, Old Salem 18 Oct 2009 Added the following Cemeteries: Old Ebenezer, David Read, Ebenezer, Edon, Fair Ridge & Blue Ridge 11 Oct 2009 Added the following Cemeteries: Antioch BC, Bay Springs, Beaver Creek Methodist Church, Bethany Baptist Church, Bethel, Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church, Corinth, County Line & Enon. Surrounding Counties * Newton County (north) * Clarke County (east) * Wayne County (southeast) * Jones County (south) * Smith County (west)                     This page last updated on -- 10 May 2013 Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.