Winston County Pictures

Dempsey family pictures
Lennie Belle Hood Wells
Children of Edward C. and Lennie Belle Wells
Jesse Clayton Ballard Family
Mary Alice Carlisle Tabor and her mother, Elizabeth Ames Carlisle
Thomas Leeper Tabor and Mary Ann Carlisle Tabor
Eululia T. Cagle
Euel Lansing Costiloe
Mary Jane Martin
Seaborn Jones Miller
The Rosamond Home and Family
Calvin Collier and Mary Crawford
Oliver Sharp and Martha Collier
Joe Collier and Reba Jackson

Tombstone of John H. Costiloe
Tombstone of Abraham Collier
Tombstone of Saml. and Mary Wragg

JAMES SAMUEL "BUSTER" CARR = carr.jpg

Below are pictures from the files of the Winston Co. MSGenWeb site. I need your help to identify these pictures. I have listed them by their file name. If you know the names and history of these people, please contact the county coordinator.

Please note the following comments relating to identification of pictures from the files of Winston Co. MSGenWeb site, your comments are welcome:

The wylie.jpg

James Davis Wylie, son of George Wylie and ? Hamilton Wylie
born: 1806 in South Carolina
died: Oct. 31, 1892, in Louisville, Winston County, MS

Married: Dec. 22, 1840 in Jefferson County, AL TO

Nancy Shaw Wylie, daughter of William Wiley Shaw and Drucilla Crawford Shaw,
granddaughter of Peter and Elizabeth Crawford
great-grandduaghter of William Shaw
born 1822, Jefferson County, AL
died 1868, Louisville, Winston County, MS

The 'LACARR.JPG' regards the following details as follows:
LUCY ARAMINTA CARR (b. 11/7/1888 Winston Co., Miss.; d. 2/27/1969 Charlotte, NC; buried Calvary Church Cem, Chester Co., SC) was the oldest daughter of JAMES SAMUEL 'BUSTER' CARR & KATY ELINOR MASSEY CARR. She married IRA FESTUS CORNWELL and moved to the CORNWELL home in Baton Rouge, SC (southwest portion of Chester Co., SC). LUCY CARR was a schoolteacher in Louisville and graduated from Bennett Academy in Clarkson, Miss. Her younger sisters were BEATRICE CARR MCALILLEY and OPHELIA CARR HEATH, both buried in the Masonic Cem. in Louisville, Miss. The CARR family lived on Metts St. in Louisville. After her mother's death in 1893, the girls were raised by their aunt MARY ALICE CARR (sister of J. S. CARR). In Baton Rouge, SC, LUCY was a farmer's wife, Sunday School teacher, newspaper correspondent, and leader in the various women's civic groups in the local farming community. She raised five CORNWELL children with husband IRA CORNWELL.
 

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JAMES SAMUEL "BUSTER" CARR (1860-1946), JAMES is the youngest child of SAMUEL & NANCY MCMILLIN CARR. James is buried at CENTER RIDGE CHURCH with his 2nd wife MATTIE STARK and several
other CARR relatives. His first wife KATY ELINOR MASSEY CARR dies in 1893. JAMES & KATY MASEEY [the gravesite of his 1st wife KATY MASSEY in Attala Co. in the Doty Spring Church Cem (off Rt 41, east
end, on Hannah Rd], had three daughters, BEATRICE, OPHELIA, and LUCY, the family lived on METTS St. in Louisville, Miss. BEATRICE MCALILLEY and OPHELIA HEATH are buried with husbands in the Masonic Cemetery. LUCY CARR CORNWELL (maternal
grandmother of my wife) is buried with husband IRA F. CORNWELL & her CORNWELL family in Chester Co., SC.

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This is Louis LeFlore McGahey, Jr.
Born: November 10, 1848 in Winston County, MS
Married: Louisa Mann on March 12, 1868 in Winston County
Died: February 1932
Buried: New Hope Cemetery, Louisville, MS
Parents: Louis LeFlore McGahey, Sr. and Mary Krebs

Louis Jr. was the great-grandson of Louis LeFleur/LeFlore and Nancy
Caravet. Nancy Caravet was the sister to Rebecca Caravet, mother to
Greenwood LeFlore, last chieftain of the Mississippi Band of Choctaws
and signer of the Dancing Rabbit Creek Treaty in the 1830's.

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This is Mary Belle McGahey, daughter of Louis McGahey, Jr. and Louisa
Mann.
Born: August 29, 1891 in Winston County, MS
Married: Robert/Ruel Neal White around 1908 in Winston County, MS
Remarried to C. A. McClanahan on September 10, 1916 in Winston County.
Died: May 18, 1921 in Winston County, MS
Buried: New Hope Cemetery, Louisville, MS

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This is Robert or Ruel Neal White (called Neal), son of James Alonzo
White and Callie Wofford.
Born: February 18, 1886 in Winston County, MS
Married to Belle McGahey around 1908 in Winston County
Moved to Oklahoma with tuberculosis around 1915 to live with his
sisters there.
Died: March 21, 1917 in Sarah, Oklahoma.
Buried: Doxey-Sayre Cemetery, Sarah, Oklahoma

Neal and his brother Tom White ran a sawmill operation in the
Webster/Bond/Murphy Creek community. After Neal moved to Oklahoma, his
mother Callie took over the sawmill with son Tom.

Belle and Neal White are my great-grandparents.

M. K. (W.) Johnson