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Change Date

           Description of Change

21-Jan-2012
  1. Added 12 November 2011 Meeting Notes.
  2. Added 10 December 2011 Meeting Notes.
  3. Added 14 January 2012 Meeting Notes.
  4. Updated Officers for 2012.
  5. Updated Archive Holdings
  6. Added Newton County Appeal Obituaries: October 2011
  7. Added Newton County Appeal Obituaries: November 2011

19-Nov-2011
  1. Added 8 October 2011 Meeting Notes.
  2. The Four Crowns of Newton County by Anne McKee
  3. The Uncle I Never Knew by Buddy Bynum. Added link to James L “Buddy” Bynum’s Obituary (1952-2011). Also added link in Military Records & Links to this article.
  4. Corrected Google Site Search on home page.
  5. Started adding pictures to the Individual Photo page.

9-Oct-2011
  1. Added 10 September 2011 Meeting Notes
  2. Added Newton County Appeal Obituaries: June 2011
  3. Added Newton County Appeal Obituaries: July 2011
  4. Added Newton County Appeal Obituaries: August 2011
  5. Added Newton County Appeal Obituaries: September 2011

    6. Note: July-September Obituary Names not indexed at top of page yet.

10-Sep-2011
  1. Added 13 August 2011 Meeting Notes.
  2. Added Newton County Appeal Obituaries: February 2011
  3. Added Newton County Appeal Obituaries: March 2011
  4. Added Newton County Appeal Obituaries: April 2011
  5. Added Newton County Appeal Obituaries: May 2011

14-Aug-2011
  1. Created new Archive_Holdings.pdf & linked to it on: Archive Holdings page.

13-Aug-2011
  1. Added 9 July 2011 Meeting Notes.
  2. Finished adding all photos to Family Photos (Historical) alphabetically.

23-Jul-2011
  1. Updated Archive Holdings (search for 07/23/2011) to see changes.
  2. Continue to add Family Photos (Historical) alphabetically. Added through McElhenney with approximately 55 photos left to add.

17-Jul-2011
  1. Continue to add Family Photos (Historical) alphabetically.

12-Jul-2011
  1. Updated Towns Communities Landmarks main page
    1. Added The History of Chunky, Mississippi by Terry T Lange
    2. Added Memories of Chunky by Sarah Judson Cooper Armstrong
  2. Updated Churches (Added Rock Branch Baptist Church Article)

10-Jul-2011
  1. Added a few photos to Historical Photos - Homes
  2. Added Family Photos (Historical)

09-Jul-2011
  1. Added a few photos to Historical Photos - Homes

07-Jul-2011
  1. Minor changes (Archives, Membership, Officers, Notices and Meetings)
  2. Added following text to Families page:

    3. NOTE: Family articles and descendant information has been provided by individual contributors to NCHGS.  If you find errors in names, dates and/or relationships, please send the updates with source/reference information to searcygr@nchgs.org.

06-Jul-2011
  1. Added 11 June 2011 Meeting Notes.

03-Jul-2011
  1. Added more Historical Photos - Schools (In Progress)

02-Jul-2011
  1. Added 9 April 2011 and 14 May 2011 Meeting Notes.
  2. Historical Photos - Schools (In Progress)
  3. Historical Photos - Family Photos (In Progress)

16-Apr-2011
  1. Add program information for 2011 November & December meetings.

4-Apr-2011
  1. Added 12 March 2011 Meeting Notes.

13-Mar-2011
  1. Added link to Greenland Baptist Church website with history of church.

05-Mar-2011
  1. Added 12 February 2011 Meeting Notes.

20-Feb-2011
  1. Updated Meetings page with events for upcoming months of 2011.

6-Feb-2011
  1. Added 8 January 2011 Meeting Notes.
  2. Updated 21 of 125 Family Group Photos in Historical Photos section. Did not publish update page yet.

31-Jan-2011
  1. Updated Historical Photos: Churches
  2. Updated Historical Photos: Events

22-Jan-2011
23-Jan-2011
  1. Added 11 December 2010 Meeting Notes. Setup for 2011 Meeting Notes & Programs.
  2. Changed Membership page & added an Adobe Fillable Membership Form for easier completion.
  3. Add Newton County Appeal Obits for 11 November 2010 through 29 December 2010.

05-Dec-2010
  1. Added 13-November-2010 Meeting Notes.

28-Nov-2010
  1. Completely changed Newton County Historical Photos. Renamed, reordered and prepared several pages in a standard format for photos. Photos are separated by Family Photos (Individuals & Family Group) and Newton County Photos (Churches, Events, Homes, Maps, Places, Schools and miscellaneous unknown). The menu was changed to reflect the reordering of the Photo pages. I have hundreds of photos to add to the website. This work will be done Jan-Mar 2011.

7-Nov-2010
  1. Added Newton County Appeal Obits for 3 November 2010
  2. Updated Archive Holdings (search for 11/07/2010 to see changes. Added Archive Holdings PDF file.
  3. Added to History of Newton by Nancy K Williams as a sub-page to Towns, Communities & Landmarks
  4. Added “Postal Service to Doolittle Station & Town of Newton” by Dr. Harold Graham.
  5. Added links to Newspapers webpage.
  6. Added new webpage “Articles About Newton Newspapers” and placed  “Early Newspapers in Newton” by A J Brown (1834-1907), “Editors of the Newton Record (1901-2009)” by Dr. Harold Graham.
  7. Added “The Bunch and Cheek Families of Newton, Mississippi: Their Family History and Migration to Newton County” by Walt Meyer, Jr.
  8. Added “Author of Brown’s History Had Feeling for History” by Miss Kate Williams (1887-1986) Undated manuscript from the late Kate Williams who notes, “This biography of Alfred John Brown was compiled from his private memoirs which he left for his family, from information supplied by his son, J. P. Brown, and from my personal acquaintance of A. J. Brown”.
  9. “Hon. A. J. Brown: A Deserved Tribute to Newton’s Late and Lamented Citizen” by J. C. Fant. Published in The Newton Record, January 6, 1908.
  10. “Grierson’s Raid” by Mae Helen Clark.

31-Oct-2010
  1. Added 9-October-2010 Meeting Notes
  2. Added Newton County Appeal Obits for 20 & 27 October 2010.

23-Oct-2010
  1. Added Newton County Appeal Obits for 4-11 August 2010
  2. Added Newton County Appeal Obits for 13 October 2010

9-Oct-2010
  1. Added Newton County Appeal Obits for August 2010
  2. Added Newton County Appeal Obits for September 2010
  3. Added 11-September-2010 Meeting Notes.
  4. Added “The Stamper of Newton County Mississippi” by Milton Stamper (Adobe Acrobat PDF file. Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to access.)

4-Sep-2010
  1. Added 14-August-2010 Meeting Notes.

30-Aug-2010
  1. Updated Archive Holdings
    (search for 08/19 or 08/30 or Frank Cook  to see changes)

8-Aug-2010
  1. Added Newton County Appeal Obits for July 2010
  2. Added 10-July-2010 Meeting Notes.

10-Jul-2010
  1. Deleted picture from Chapman Family.
  2. Added 12-June-2010 Meeting Notes.
  3. Added Newton County Appeal Obits for 16-June & 23-June 2010.
  4. Added Places page for historical photos.
  5. Added “If Walls Could Talk” by Harold Graham (Remembering, Vol 9, Nos 1&2). The story of the Frank Grey Semmes. A short biographical sketch and the Newton Record accounts of the killing of Thomas D Lawson over a dispute about road access.
  6. Added “Georgia Tann: A Story of Stolen Babies” by Lois Cooper (Remembering, Vol 9, Nos 1&2). The story of Georgia Tann is one of intrigue, fascination, horror, disbelief and many more words of description.  It is a story of a very influential woman who was born and raised in Hickory, Mississippi. ...
  7. Added “A Likely Story--Truth is Stranger Than Fiction” (Remembering, Vol 9, Nos 1&2). Part 1: The Story by Jewell Ferguson Russell & Part 2: The Rest of the Story by Dr. Harold Graham.  A story of the killing of Berry Clark Everett.
  8. Added “Historical Notes on The Town of Hickory” by Dr. Harold Graham (Remembering, Vol 9, Nos 1&2).
  9. Added “Another Good Man Gone: The Life and Times of Jesse Preston Gibbon” By Bobby Caldwell and Dr. Harold Graham (Remembering, Vol 9, Nos 1&2). Includes family tree/descendant information.
  10. Added “The Man Behind the Maps” By Dr. Harold Graham (Remembering, Vol 9, Nos 1&2). In the office of the Chancery Clerk, Newton County, Mississippi, one will find a series of maps of several Newton County towns, all drawn in the early 1900’s and bearing the signature of Thomas H.  Harrod.  ...

5-Jun-2010
  1. Added 8-May-2010 Meeting Notes.

4-Jun-2010
  1. Added Newton County Appeal Obits for May 2010 & 2-June-2010

1-May-2010
  1. Added Newton County Appeal Obits for April 21 & 28 2010

24-Apr-2010
  1. Added Copyright section to drop-down menu
  2. Added 10-Apr-2010 Meeting Notes.

19-Apr-2010
  1. Added Newton County Appeal Obits for April 7 & 14 2010

10-Apr-2010
  1. Added Newton County Mississippi: A Cemetery Census 1782-1995
  2. Added Newton County Appeal Obits for March 2010

7-Apr-2010
  1. Updated Chapman Family w/pictures & minor updates

27-Mar-2010
  1. Added 13-Mar-2010 Meeting Notes.

24-Mar-2010
  1. Added Newton County Appeal Obits for March 2010
  2. Added The Rise of Newton County’s Public School System from the 1936 Centenial issue of The Newton Record

13-Mar-2010
  1. Added new page: Archive Holdings
  2. Updated Archives page
  3. Updated Photos of Newton County page. Added book information.

6-Feb-2010
  1. Minor updates, error corrections & other changes
  2. Changed top-level menu system. Move Sharing Standards to NCHGS Info, and moved Archives to top-level Navigation bar.
  3. Updated Meetings page, August 2010 program presenter
  4. Added Newton County Appeal Obits from Jan & Feb 2010

31-Jan-2010
  1. Updated Reverend Cader Price (Revised 2008 by Dr. Harold Graham)
  2. Added The Vance Migration by Janette Vance Morgan

30-Jan-2010
  1. The Hansfords in Newton County, Mississippi by Terry Terrell Lange
  2. Turning Points add to Early Transportation
  3. The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 Strikes Lake by Martha Waltman
  4. A History of Hazel Baptist Church by Mark Savell
  5. Towns, Communities and Other Landmarks (New Section)
  6. Towns, Communities and Other Landmarks, Southwest Quadrant, Northern Half (Exclusive of the Town of Newton) by Dr. Harold Graham
  7. Organizations (New Section)
  8. Patrons Union by Bess Hollingsworth
  9. Southwest Quadrant
  10. Towns, Communities and Other Landmarks in the Southern Half of the Southwest Quadrant of Newton County, Mississippi by Dr. Harold Graham
  11. Bermuda Hill by Frances Doolittle Norman
  12. Tanglewood Plantation by Milton McMullan
  13. Early Life in the Jackson Prairie, Newton County, Mississippi By George L. Mason
  14. Updated NCHGS Research/Military Records & Links page
  15. Resaca’s Bloody Field, Reminiscences of a Confederate Soldier of Newton County by Terry Terrell Lange
  16. The Town of Hickory by A. J. Brown with additional notes from Melvin Tingle, Greg Boggan, and Dr. Harold Graham
  17. The Road to New Orleans
  18. Native American Section
  19. Researching Choctaw Indian Ancestry by Dr. Harold Graham
  20. Choctaw Towns in Newton County by A. J. Brown with updates by Melvin Tingle
  21. The French and Indian War A Matter of Colonial Policy By Frank H. Kirtley
  22. Tecumseh Visits the Choctaw Nation By Dr. Harold Graham
  23. Haunted Lake Holds On To Past Legends by Nan Fairley
  24. The Juzan Family of Spanish West Florida and The Choctaw Nation by Greg Boggan
  25. The Odyssey of John Parks By Dr. Harold Graham
  26. The Death of a Soldier by George Powell Clarke

29-Jan-2010
  1. Benjamin Jefferson Moore family by Charlie Chapman, Jr.

28-Jan-2010
  1. The Way We Were by Dr. Harold Graham
  2. Early Generations of the Benjamin Jefferson Moore Family In Newton County by Charlie Chapman, Jr.

27-Jan-2010
  1. Minor updates & corrections
  2. Working on .htaccess to redirect old nchgs.org pages to new when users access the website via google.com

26-Jan-2010

  - Published new NCHGS.ORG website. 
  - Additions to the original website are:

  1. Historical Photos section
  2. Remembering Floy Elizabeth Martin Hurst (1931-2005)
  3. Maxwell & Allied Families
  4. Articles & Notes (a new section to the NCHGS website
  5. Tracking Sherman through Newton County - Part 1 / Eastern Half
  6. Church Going in the 1870’s and 1880’s - Part 1 & 2
  7. Remembering Daysidel Day Bruister Berry Hill
  8. Wroten, Day & Allied Families
  9. The Todd Family in Newton County
  10. William Harris, Sr. Family of Newton County
  11. Added Google Site Search to Home page
  12. Added Newspaper & Newton County Appeal (Obits) sections
  13. Tracking Sherman Through Newton County: Part 2 - Western Half From Scott County Line to Decatur by Ricky Harrison
  14. A Tale of Two Soldiers by Dr. Harold Graham

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