Mississippi Culpepper Archives
Jasper County

County History

Jasper County was created December 13, 1833, and was named for Sergeant Jasper of Fort Moultrie (South Carolina) fame. It was carved from the territory just north of the old Mount Dexter treaty line, acquired from the Choctaws in 1830, and was originally occupied by the Six Town tribe of that nation. Soon after the removal of the Choctaws from the region it was rapidly settled by a thriving class of emigrants from the older states and the other parts of Mississippi.  The Eastern Clarion, among the old newspapers in the State and now published in Jackson under the name of the Clarion Ledger, was issued as a weekly at Paulding in the early thirties. Jasper County's population, as of 2000, is 18,149, and it is part of the Laurel, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area. Jasper is a county with two county seats, one courthouse is in Bay Springs, and the other is in Paulding. Other towns include Heidelberg, Louin and Montrose. The old courthouse at Paulding burned in 1932 with the loss of all records. Jasper County is bordered by Newton County (north), Clarke County (east), Wayne County (southeast), Jones County (south) and Smith County (west).

Any names below in red have not been matched with a person in the Culpepper family tree. If you can identify any of them, please let us know.

Census Records

No Culpeppers were found in any Jasper County censuses prior to 1860.

1860 US Census

Transcribed for Culpepper Connections by Shannon Leigh O’Connor Christian

1870-1880 US Census

1890 US Census

1900 US Census

1910 US Census

Transcribed for Culpepper Connections by Shannon Leigh O’Connor Christian

1920 US Census

Transcribed for Culpepper Connections by Linda Jones Cushing

1930 US Census

Transcribed for Culpepper Connections by Malcolm Wicks Culpepper

Military Records

World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918

Source: National Archives and Records Administration. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-18 (database online) Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2002. National Archives and Records Administration. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. M1509, 4,277 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration

U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946

Source: National Archives and Records Administration. U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 (database online). Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2005. Original data: Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, 1938-1946 (Archival Database); World War II Army Enlistment Records; Records of the National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 64; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD.

Marriages

Mississippi Marriages, 1776-1935

Source: Hunting For Bears, comp.. Mississippi Marriages, 1776-1935 (database on-line). Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004. Original data: Mississippi marriage information taken from county courthouse records. Many of these records were extracted from copies of the original records in microfilm, microfiche, or book format, located at the Family History Library.

Land Records

Mississippi Land Records

Source: United States, Bureau of Land Management. Mississippi Land Records (database on-line). Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 1997. Original data: United States, Bureau of Land Management. Mississippi Pre-1908 Patents: Homesteads, Cash Entry, Choctaw Indian Scrip and Chickasaw Cession Lands. General Land Office Automated Records Project, 1997

Deaths

Social Security Death Index

Source: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index (database on-line). Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2007. All records of deaths on or before 31 Dec 2007 in which the final benefit was paid or final residence was in this county.

Places