Lydia Louisa King was the mother of Wiley Benjamin Hill, Sr., my great grandmother.
Why did I have that Louisa Lydia King was born in Jeff Davis County, Mississippi? She was born in 1848 and Jeff Davis didn't even become a county until 1906!
Jeff Davis County, however, was formed from the eastern part of Lawrence County and the Western part of Covington County. It would be reasonable to "assume" that Louisa Lydia King was born, then, in Lawrence County or Covington County. My dad's research has her as being born in both Lawrence County and Marion County, depending on which family group sheet you are looking at. At any rate, while trying to sort all of this out, I stumbled upon (thanks to Google), a really great map for Mississippi counties. Mississippi Quick Facts from the US Census Bureau is a site I will use again and again, I suspect. I tried to save the image, but the site is not configured for that, so I just printed the map out.
The spirit of exploring and celebrating where we came from is the work of genealogists. My Dad, "Bennie" Hill, was the quintessential family historian. He caught the bug later in life but spent the next 33 years making up for lost time. Thanks to you, Dad, I'm hooked!
