Help! research in Mississippi?

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Help! research in Mississippi?

My mother's grandfathers family comes from Mississippi usually I can do my own research but I'm at a total loss on this one my great grandfather William Thomas Smith was born in Hardeman co,Tennessee and married Minnie P. Pirtle that's been easy enough to find and document, his father was Charles H. Smith and he married Huldie Moss and I've got charles death certificate and Charles was born in 1868 either January or November in Mississippi and then I can't get any further. My mother tells me that her mom and her grandmother spoke of the Smith's coming out of Sunflower Co, Mississippi after the Civil War b/c of the sharecropper laws that sprank up I'm okay at genealogy but the Smith surname has got me stumped if anyone would help me with this or give me any tips for researching in Mississippi or tips on the Smith surname research please help me.

thanks,
Mitchell

Additional Details

3 weeks ago
Charles H. Smith
Born: 11 Jan 1868 Mississippi
Died:29 Dec 1931 Dyersburg,Tennessee

I can't get past him,Please help me.

3 weeks ago
Yes he went by Charley just as his son went by Willie but there christian names were Charles and William I'm looking mostly for Charles Smith parents.

3 weeks ago
I don't know if that's them my Smith's were dirt poor and sharecropper's.

3 weeks ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sharecroppe...

3 weeks ago
I have looked on the cenus for every federal census year in Mississippi I need more proof then just b/c Charlie is listed with some family the names Charles,William and Thomas are to frequent plus the last name Smith It could be anyone.But thank you for trying Granny every bit helps.

3 weeks ago
I'm assuming Sunflower Co, Miss my mother has never had any proof that they were from there just the stories of her mother and grandmother. I'm too the point that I'm thinking of testing cousins against a Smith DNA database for Smith's located in the southern United States.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: 3 weeks ago
Charles H. Smith
Born: 11 Jan 1868 Mississippi
Died:29 Dec 1931 Dyersburg,Tennessee

I can't get past him,Please help me.