Hart Family in Yazoo County, Mississippi

John and Martha Ann Meredith Hart (son of John Bryan & Mary Gill Hart) settled on the Bogue Chitto River in Pike County, MS.  Five of their 10 children moved to Yazoo County about 1844:  Daniel, James, John, Christopher and Rowland Hart.

“Big John” Hart built a home in what was named Hart Town and gave land on which the

Cumberland Presbyterian Church, the Hart Town Cemetery, the school and a female

academy was built. (from “Yazoo County Story” published 1958 by the Yazoo Historical

Assn.)  The house was still standing in 1958 along with a house built by James Hart.

Daniel W. Hart (b. July 16, 1815 & d. July 16, 1889) married Laura Elizabeth Armstrong on January 2, 1845 in Franklin County, MS. 

James M. Hart (b. March 4, 1816 & d. July 14, 1863) married Amanda Jane Smith on November 30, 1839 in Lawrence County, MS. 

John Hart was born January 24, 1818 and died July 27, 1855.

These 3 brothers are all buried in the Hart Town Cemetery.

Dr. Rowland T. Hart (b. 1830 & d. 1908 at Pickens, MS) married Salena Quin of Pike

County MS and is buried in a Quin family cemetery near McComb, Pike County, MS.

Christopher R. Hart, ba 1827, married Virginia Harrison on December 19, 1846 in Yazoo County.  He died in December 1862, probably in the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou.  Virginia Harrison was 15 at the time of their marriage, and the application for marriage license contains a handwritten note by David Harrison giving permission for the marriage license to be issued.   I have been unable to trace the Harrison family.