Mississippi – Yalobusha County

YALOBUSHA CO, MS

Yalobusha Co MS map

1840 Yalobusha Co MS taxroll
B L McLuney (maybe?) – 1 white poll, 225 acres
http://www.mdah.ms.gov/arrec/digital_archives/taxrolls/Yalobusha/1840/Combined/20

1841 Yalobusha Co MS taxroll – no Going or McLuney names

1845 Yalobusha Co MS taxroll – no Going or McLuney names

1850 – Yalobusha, Mississippi – US Census – pages 406 – family 424:
– Thompson McCluney – age 46 – Male – head of household – Planter – born in SC
– A. McCluney – age 21 – Female – born in SC
– John McCluney – age 20 – Male – born in SC
– Samuel McCluney – age 18 – Male – born in SC
– Thadeus McCluney – age 12 – Male – born in Ala.
– Docia Plaxco – age 80 – Female – born in SC
– Hugh Forbes – age 24 – Male – Laborer – born in SC
– Jas Stephens – age 19 – Male – Laborer – born in Miss  (Note:  Docia Plaxco is the widow of Elijah Goyen (or Going) of Chester Co, SC – she remarried and was widowed again.  Her son from her marriage with Elijah Going/Goyen is Drury B. Goyen who was living in Lowndes County, MS and Oktibbeha County, MS – who disappears from records after 1847 (Drury appears to have died some time between 1847-50).  Docia Plaxco’s daughter from her marriage to John Plaxco is Elvira Plaxco – she married Thompson McCluney.  Elvira Plaxco McCluney died before the 1850 US Census – this is her family.  William W. Goyen wrote several letters that have survived to his grandmother – Docia Bland Goyen Plaxco – and to his cousins in the McCluney family).

1853 Yalobusha Co MS taxroll
Thompson McLuny
John T McLuny
http://www.mdah.ms.gov/arrec/digital_archives/taxrolls/Yalobusha/1853/Personal/28

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