My name is Gerald Westmoreland and I welcome you to Franklin County Roots. Our goal here is to aid genealogical researchers with resources and materials related to Franklin County, Mississippi at no cost to the researcher. This site is FREE and will ALWAYS be FREE to all researchers! We are proud to be a part of the Mississippi Genealogy & History Network.

I am in the process of bringing more Franklin County resources to this web-site as quickly as possible. If you have any questions, suggestions or comments, please email me at gerald.westmoreland@gmail.com. If you have Franklin County information you are willing to share, please let me know. Good luck in your pursuit of those elusive ancestors!

The following is part of what you will find here on Franklin County Roots so far.

• Bude Cemetery burial listing with tombstone photos. Located in downtown Bude.
• Davis Cemetery burial listing with tombstone photos. Located on Spring Road SE about 1/4 mile east of Bert Jordan Road. 312358N, 0904053W.
• Over 10,000 Franklin County marriage records. That's a lot of marriage info. Be sure to check for your Franklin County ancestors.
• Franklin County Cemetery List. We have burial listings with tombstone photos for many Frankiln County cemeteries. I'm sure there are some cemeteries that are not on the list. How about giving us a hand by sending information on the cemeteries we're missing.
• Judge Thomas Magee Cemetery burial listing with photos of each tombstone. This cemetery is located on Burt Jordan Road just north of Round Top Hill Road.
• McCall Cemetery burial listing with photos of each tombstone. You can find this cemetery on Laird Road about a 1/4 mile off Burt Jordan Road. 312824N, 0904110W.

Franklin County was the fourth county formed in Mississippi, so is one of the oldest of the counties in Mississippi. It was established December 21, 1809, eleven years after the Mississippi Territory was formed. The territorial Governor at the time was David Holmes, who was appointed by President Thomas Jefferson.

The County was named after Benjamin Franklin, noted diplomat, statesman, and inventor. The original act of the General Assembly states that the part of Adams county included within the following boundaries shall be known as of Franklin County and reads as follows:

"Beginning at the point where the basis-meridian line intersects the river Homochitto, and pursuing the said meridian line until it intersects the line dividing the counties of Adams and Jefferson, thence pursuing the last mentioned line to the western boundary of Washington County, thence pursuing the last mentioned line until it intersects the northern boundary of Amite County, thence along the said last mentioned boundary line to the point where it intersects the said river Homochitto, and thence Pursuing the meanders of said river to the beginning."

The centrally located county seat is the town of Meadville was originally named Franklin and was located two miles west of its current location. In 1809 a citizens committee made up of Richard Coleman, Stephen Middleton, John Spivars, Dougal McLaughlin, and Samuel Ratcliff, was formed to aquire land for a county seat.

The county seat was moved to the new town of Meadville in 1920. The town was, named for Cowles Mead, who served as the second secretary of the Mississippi Territory. Meadville was incorporated as a Mississippi town in 1860. Mississippi Congressman Dan C. McGeehee was a native of Meadville.

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