History

On an Indian Summer Day in November, Jill Smith invited Yalobusha Historical Society members to visit Union County and to walk blocks in the quilt trail.  Jill Smith is the director of the Union County Heritage Museum.  Union County is the first county in the state to create a quilt trail, and they join 47…

Funerals were pretty much of a community affair.  Homemade coffins were made and neighbors dug the graves.  All of this began changing at the turn of the 20th century. Yalobusha Historical Society members listened as Charles Cooper shared Water Valley funeral home history on October 17, 2013.  Cooper is a columnist for the North Mississippi…

“We will add water to the soup and make home-folks out of you if you will visit us in Mississippi,” Bill Lee and his cousins told the Archbishop of Canterbury on a visit to Robert E. Lee’s ancestral home, Shropshire County, England.  William (Bill) Lee, Robert E. Lee’s cousin, presented a slide show of his…

On an unusually cool Thursday afternoon in the middle of August, the King Authors twins gave the YHS members a glimpse into Y’all Twins and Which is Which. In 1950’s Oxford, Mississippi, identical twin sisters Katherine and Margaret King got away with everything.  Their stories begin at age six when they hopped a ride on…

Amidst a Mississippi July thunderstorm, Randy Bishop informed twenty three members of the Yalobusha Historical Society that Mississippi’s strategic significance for both armies during the war between the States is still clearly seen today, a century and a half after the final battle of the horrific conflict.   With the mighty Mississippi River bordering its west…

On June 20, 2013, James Person, native of Water Valley, shared with members and visitors of the Yalobusha Historical Society. One of the earliest settlers in what was to become Yalobusha County was Henry Person, born 1792 in Warren County North Carolina, the son of Jesse and Amy Rush (Perry) Person.   Knowing that land was…

By Joy Tippit Special To The Herald COFFEEVILLE – Oxford author Carolyn Carter captures the glory of God in the miracles that have transformed her by learning to rely on Almighty God in all aspects of her life in her book, “One More Heartbeat.”     Carter was the guest speaker during the May meeting at…

“Scheduled heart surgery can be reversed; emergency heart surgery cannot be reversed.” These were the opening remarks of Yalobusha Historical Society speaker, Dr. John Evans, a retired orthopedic surgeon. On March 21, 2013 Dr. Evans shared: Patients want a prescription when they come to see a doctor.  They do not want to hear a change…

Vaccines Likely Culprit In Autism Diagnosis COFFEEVILLE – Thirty Yalobusha Historical Society (YHS) members listened on February 21, as Judy Brasher, a retired nurse and anesthetist and grandmother of four, including a nine year-old boy with autism, presented the February program.  Her topic was autism.       She began by sharing her grandson’s story of…

Thirty-six Yalobusha Historical Society members and guests listened December 13, 2012  as former teenage Grenada WNAG radio star, Jackie Austin Weibly, and her brother, Bob Austin entertained with “Winter Wonderland,” “Let it Snow,” “Jingle Bell Rock,” and other Christmas tunes. Jackie Austin was born in Grenada, MS in 1934.  She began her singing career at…