I was born in Jones County, as were my maternal grandparents and my mother (my father was born in Texas but was raised in Corinth). I know the Coulter branch made a move to Jones County through my great-grandmother Olive Linda Coulter when she married William Ervin Davis. I'm not sure where the Davis' come from, but I suspect they already lived in Jones County. William's father was Andrew Lawson Davis.

I also have a possible McLeod connection to Jones County, though through a Covington County link. During the famous Free State of Jones incident during the Civil War, a McLeod plantation owner is listed as offering his estate for the nursing of the wounded (apparently of both sides). My McLeods are rooted in Covington County, but we know very little of them. I have them traced back to Christiana McLeod who married James Windham (of Mount Olive). Her father was one of three sons of an Isle of Skye immigrant who came to North Carolina in the late 1700s. Two of his sons traveled south, one settling in mid-Mississippi and the other coming to Covington County. I strongly believe this McLeod is the one mentioned as offering his lands to the wounded during the Free State of Jones conflict. Some further research will be in order though. Being in Alabama (and in school!) limits me to traveling to Mississippi to do much of the research I would like to do. As far as official research I've done, I would be glad to email you what I have. However, it seems our historical roots (at least on my mother's side) are planted in Paulding and Covington County.

Casey