Hancock County (Mississippi) Chancery Clerk: Free Discharge Recording

Section 35-3-13 has chancery clerks record, without cost, all honorable discharges and all certificates of service of members of the Armed Forces residing in the same county, and furnish certified copies free of charge; see the Mississippi entry on free records for VA claims. The Hancock County Chancery Clerk's page carries a "Fees & Forms" section - Chancery Court Filing Fees, Land Recording Fees, Passport Fees, Tax Records, each a PDF - with no discharge line, and an Online Land Records Search whose first-time users create an account. If a fee is charged for a discharge, cite the statute. Before recording, ask how the discharge will be indexed and whether it can be kept from public view, since a DD-214 carries a Social Security number and the recorded document may be a public record. Where. Chancery Clerk Tiffany Lee Cowman, 152 Main Street, Suite A, Bay Saint Louis, MS 39520; 228-467-5406, [email protected]. Read from. The county's site answers a hard Cloudflare block to every automated reader, so this entry rests on the Internet Archive capture of September 19, 2025; the Land Recording Fees PDF was not readable in the capture, so the free recording rests on the statute.