Moscow 1845 LDS Branch

Circa 1845 a group of families living Pickens County, Mississippi converted to the new Mormon Religion and created their own branch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is believed this group held regular worship services at Moscow, Alabama.

This is an informal census based on currently available genealogical information to help their descendants to better understand and appreciate their ancestral roots.

Introduction
Many of the members of this group had close connections to a similar group meeting just across the stateline at the Buttahatchie 1845 LDS Branch in Noxubee County, Alabama.

After 1845 many of these Mormons left to join the great exodus heading west to settle Utah. Most of them participated in the Mississippi Wagon Company which spent the winter of 1846/47 in Pueblo Co with the Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments. This but them further west than any of the Mormon pioneers that season. They quickly followed Brigham Young's advance party into the Salt Lake Valley that summer.

Because of their experience with farming cotton in the Deep South, many of this groups were called to participate in the Mormon Cotton mission to settle Washington County, Utah and raise cotton there from 1850-1868. Afterwards many moved further south to help establish Mormon settlements in Arizona and pursue their warm-weather farming talents there.

Vital Records
Records show this branch existed circa 1845. Source Document: Times and Seasons 5:5, 462.

Family of William Richey
Lived earlier in Pickens County, but were actually part of the Buttahatchie 1845 LDS Branch.