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Tuesday August 17, 2010

Below is a preliminary list of books and publications related to Grenada County. 

History of Grenada County
	Written by Barbara Anderson Daigre. Published in 1985. (Available at Elizabeth Jones Public Library).
	Written by J, C. Hathorn, privately published in 1970. Google books has this book available for search on their website.
	Home Again, by Arnold Dyre, available at Amazon. Is a sequel to his story Home is Where the Heart Is and is about growing up in the rural South and the community of Gore Springs.
Indians and Pioneers of Old Eliot, A Grenada County, Mississippi Community
	Written by Henry Watterson Heggie, published in 1989, Tullahoma Press, Grenada.
The Barbee/Lake Family Murders
	Written by Gregory Boyd.
Family Maps of Grenada, Mississippi, Deluxe Edition
	The Family Maps series of Land Patent Books are published county by county, state by state, for original settlers whose purchases are indexed in the U.S. Bureau of Land Management database. For the first time, you can locate your ancestor's federal land purchase by simply finding them in a surname index, then an all-name index, which directs you to a map of first-land-owners. And now you can learn who your ancestors' neighbors were! The Family Maps books are a helpful visual reference tool that make your federal lands research easier than ever.
A Charge to Keep, a History of the First Methodist Church, Grenada, Mississippi
	Written by Frances Boushe West. West tells the story of the early Methodists of Grenada County beginning in 1820 along with some early church rolls. This book also contains an early history of Grenada College. (Available at Elizabeth Jones Public Library)
Books of Mississippi Available at Elizabeth Jones Public Library
	Compendium of The Confederate Armies / Mississippi by Stewart Sifakis ISBN 0-8160-2292