…There weren't very many cemeteries in the vicinity of Tchula, as this is a very low area and was often flooded in the past…

…Holmes County court house burned in 1884-85 and all records were lost, except one Will Book.  The property have mostly been reconstructed and are fairly accurate…

…As for X. Helmer, who is shown as belonging first to 3rd MS Inf(State Troops).  In the early days of the civil war, there really was no confederacy, so individual states formed such units as they were able to, to protect the state borders.  These were enlisted for a period of one year.  In most cases, at the end of the year, the units were disbanded.  By that time the confederacy had sort or gotten organized and started forming the confederate army.  Some state unit were taken into the confederate, with all personnel enlisting for a period of three years.  Some were renamed and some were consolidated with other unit and may or may not have changed names.  So I suspect that the 3rd MS Inf was simply disbanded and X. joined the 28 Cavalry, along with his relatives…

…Xavier is shown on the census as a steamboatman, basically, in about this time period, trade goods and freight were brought up the Mississippi and then the Yazoo River in rafts.  The really old river bed for the Yazoo River comes through Tchula and is now known as Tchula Lake.  There was a dock in Tchula, where the freight was handled, then it was put on freight wagons and hauled through Lexington and then east, over into Alabama.  There was an old town, named Rankin, that was just on the edge of the hills and the delta and it was the gathering place for the raftsmen and freight haulers.  The town disappeared in the mid-1800's.  There was a fairly large cemetery there, but it has been vandalized and the hill has eroded away part of the cemetery and now there are only two markers still there.  I have secured a Wyatt family list that shows several members of that family who were buried at Rankin Cemetery, but none have markers.
I'll look at the census records again, to see if I can tell by the names of residents who lived near the Helmers, the location of the property they lived on.  Since Tchula was located down in the delta and was covered with water a good bit of the time, most of the plantation owners farmed in the delta and lived out in the hills, where the mosquitos were not so bad.  Yellow fever was also a problem where the mosquitos were bad…

….The area that the Hubbards lived in was shown as District 11, Holmes County.  While this was Holmes County then, it was formed into Humphries County in 1918, so any information about burials or cemeteries would be located in Belzoni, the county seat of Humphries County…

…Some of the land in this District 11 was located east of the Yazoo River and the rest was west of the Yazoo River.  Practically all of this area was very low and marshy…