|
Cemeteries In Mississippi
This list of cemeteries in Mississippi includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable. It does not include pet cemeteries. Adams County * Cemetery Bluff District, Natchez; NRHP-listed * Natchez National Cemetery, Natchez; NRHP-listed Alcorn County * Corinth National Cemetery, Corinth; NRHP-listed Claiborne County * Catholic Cemetery (Port Gibson, Mississippi), Port Gibson; NRHP-listed * Golden West Cemetery, Port Gibson; NRHP-listed * Grand Gulf Cemetery at Grand Gulf Military State Park, Port Gibson; NRHP-listed * Jewish Cemetery, Port Gibson; NRHP-listed * Wintergreen Cemetery, Port Gibson; NRHP-listed Grenada County * Odd Fellows and Confederate Cemetery, Grenada; NRHP-listed * Providence Cemetery (Grenada, Mississippi); NRHP-listed Harrison County * Biloxi National Cemetery, Biloxi Hinds County * Cedar Lawn Cemet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cemeteries
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground and originally applied to the Roman catacombs. The term ''graveyard'' is often used interchangeably with cemetery, but a graveyard primarily refers to a burial ground within a churchyard. The intact or cremated remains of people may be interred in a grave, commonly referred to as burial, or in a tomb, an "above-ground grave" (resembling a sarcophagus), a mausoleum, columbarium, niche, or other edifice. In Western cultures, funeral ceremonies are often observed in cemeteries. These ceremonies or rites of passage differ according to cultural practices and religious beliefs. Modern cemeteries often include crematoria, and some grounds previously used for both, continue as crematoria as a principal use long after the intermen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odd Fellows And Confederate Cemetery
The Odd Fellows and Confederate Cemetery, at the corner of Cemetery and Commerce Streets in Grenada, Mississippi is a historic cemetery. It includes Gothic architecture, Romanesque architecture, Classical architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, for architectural criteria. The Confederate section contains about 150 graves of Confederate soldiers who died in the Grenada area. (3 pages) with The cemeteries may contain burials from several specific calamities. Grenada suffered a tornado on May 7, 1846, which destroyed 112 houses and killed 21 persons. And it suffered a fire in 1855 which burned about half of the town's buildings. And soon after the fall of Vicksburg, Grenada was site of a Union cavalry raid on August 18 and 19, 1863, which overwhelmed a token defensive force and destroyed the town's railway depot, railyard buildings, eighty locomotives and 200 freight cars. The cemetery may also include burials of victims of a devastati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jefferson Chapel A
Jefferson may refer to: Names * Jefferson (surname) * Jefferson (given name) People * Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), third president of the United States * Jefferson (footballer, born 1970), full name Jefferson Tomaz de Souza, Brazilian football midfielder * Jefferson (footballer, born 1978), full name Jefferson Fredo Rodrigues, Brazilian football midfielder * Jefferson (footballer, born 1981), full name Jefferson Vieira da Cruz, Brazilian football striker * Jefferson (footballer, born 1982), full name Jefferson Charles de Souza Pinto, Brazilian football midfielder * Jefferson (footballer, born 1983), full name Jefferson de Oliveira Galvão, Brazilian football goalkeeper * Jefferson (footballer, born January 1988), full name Jefferson Andrade Siqueira, Brazilian football striker * Jefferson (footballer, born July 1988), full name Jefferson Moreira Nascimento, Brazilian football left-back * Jefferson (footballer, born August 1988), full name Jefferson Lopes Faustino, Brazil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ocean Springs, Mississippi
Ocean Springs is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, United States, approximately east of Biloxi and west of Gautier. It is part of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 17,225 at the 2000 U.S. Census. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the city of Ocean Springs had a population of 17,442. The town has a reputation as an arts community. The town was voted as a top 10 Happiest Seaside Town by Coastal Living in 2015. Its historic and secluded down town area, with streets lined by live oak trees, is home to several art galleries and shops. It is also home to a number of ethnic restaurants relatively uncommon in surrounding communities. Ocean Springs was the home town of the late Walter Inglis Anderson, a nationally renowned painter and muralist who died in 1965 from lung cancer. The town plays host to several festivals, including its Peter Anderson Festival and The Herb Festival. Ocean Springs was severely damaged on August 29, 2005, by Hur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evergreen Cemetery (Ocean Springs, Mississippi)
Evergreen Cemetery may refer to the following cemeteries in the United States (listed by state, then city/town): Alaska * Evergreen Cemetery (Juneau, Alaska) Arizona * Evergreen Cemetery (Bisbee, Arizona), listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Cochise County, Arizona Arkansas * Evergreen Cemetery (Fayetteville, Arkansas), listed on the NRHP in Washington County, Arkansas California * Evergreen Cemetery (Los Angeles), California * Evergreen Cemetery (Oakland, California), site for the memorial plaque honoring the victims of the Jonestown Massacre * Evergreen Cemetery (Riverside, California) * Evergreen Cemetery (Santa Cruz, California) Colorado * Evergreen Cemetery (Colorado Springs, Colorado), listed on the NRHP in El Paso County, Colorado * Ute Cemetery, listed on the NRHP in Aspen, Colorado, and sometimes known as Evergreen Cemetery Connecticut * Evergreen Cemetery (New Haven, Connecticut) Florida * Evergreen Cemetery (Bartow, Florida) * Ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lexington, Mississippi
Lexington is a city in and the county seat of Holmes County, Mississippi, United States. The county was organized in 1833 and the city in 1836. The population was 1,731 at the 2010 census, down from 2,025 at the 2000 census. The estimated population in 2018 was 1,496. It has declined from its high of 3,198 in 1950 due to the expansion of industrial-scale agriculture. History Incorporated in 1836, the city was founded by European-American settlers after most of the Choctaw people, who had long occupied this area, were forced to cede their land to the United States and remove to the Indian Territory. The new settlers initially developed riverfront land along the Yazoo and Black rivers for cotton plantations, primarily worked by enslaved African Americans. The enslaved people were brought by planters with them from the Upper South or transported in the domestic slave trade. In total, more than one million African Americans were transported to the Deep South, breaking up many famil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acona Church, Cemetery, And School
Acona Church, Cemetery, and School is a historic complex near in Lexington, Mississippi, in the community of Acona. This combination of church, school and cemetery was once common in rural areas, but the Acona complex is one of the few surviving ones. The church was built in 1876 as a two-story building. The upper story was used for a lodge hall. A three-room separate building on one edge of the property served as the school. A cemetery was also developed here, with gravestones from the 1880s, and it was still in use in the early 21st century. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artist ... in 2002. References External links * * Former churches in Mississippi Defunct schools in Mississippi Greek R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Olive Cemetery (Jackson, Mississippi)
Mount Olive Cemetery is a historic burial ground for African Americans in Jackson, Mississippi. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.Registration form National Register of Historic Places History The earliest burial in Mount Olive Cemetery was in 1807. Mount Olive served the African American community of Jackson, with the majority of burials occurring between 1900 and 1965. The cemetery has experienced years of neglect and some of the headstones have deteriorated as a result of this neglect. Since 2015, researchers from the adjacentJackson State University
Jackson State Universi ...
[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenwood Cemetery (Jackson, Mississippi)
Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery located in downtown Jackson, Mississippi. Still in use, it was established by a federal land grant on November 21, 1821. It was originally known simply as "The Graveyard" and later as "City Cemetery" before the present name was adopted in 1899. It is the final resting place of Confederate generals, former governors of Mississippi, mayors of Jackson, as well as other notable figures, the most recent of whom is internationally acclaimed author Eudora Welty. The graves of over 100 "unknown" Confederate soldiers are also located here. Greenwood Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and as a Mississippi Landmark The following is a list of Mississippi Landmarks officially nominated by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History and approved by each county's chancery clerk. The Mississippi Landmark designation is the highest form of recognition bestow ... in 1984. The "garden park" type cemetery contains the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackson, Mississippi
Jackson, officially the City of Jackson, is the Capital city, capital of and the List of municipalities in Mississippi, most populous city in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The city is also one of two county seats of Hinds County, Mississippi, Hinds County, along with Raymond, Mississippi, Raymond. The city had a population of 153,701 at the 2020 census, down from 173,514 at the 2010 census. Jackson's population declined more between 2010 and 2020 (11.42%) than any Major cities in the U.S., major city in the United States. Jackson is the anchor for the Jackson metropolitan area, Mississippi, Jackson metropolitan statistical area, the largest metropolitan area completely within the state. With a 2020 population estimated around 600,000, metropolitan Jackson is home to over one-fifth of Mississippi's population. The city sits on the Pearl River (Mississippi–Louisiana), Pearl River and is located in the greater Jackson Prairie region of Mississippi. Founded in 1821 as the site f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cedar Lawn Cemetery (Jackson, Mississippi)
Cedar Lawn Cemetery, also known as Cedarlawn Cemetery, was created in 1899, becoming the second official public cemetery for the city of Jackson, Mississippi. Notable interments * Julian P. Alexander (1887–1953), associate justice Supreme Court of Mississippi (1941–53). * Waldo Emerson Bailey (1896–1961), American Consul. * Theodore DuBose Bratton (1862–1944), served as Bishop of Mississippi in The Episcopal Church from 1903 until 1938. * Myra Hamilton Green (1924–2002), Mississippi artist who specialized in portraits and still life. * Andrew Houston Longino (1854–1942), 35th Governor of Mississippi, in office 1900–04. * Dunbar Rowland (1864–1937), historian and archivist who served as Director of Mississippi Department of Archives and History for 35 years. Flying Dutchmen In the early years of World War II, Nazi Germany occupied the Netherlands. Between 1942 and 1944, the United States permitted 500 displaced Dutch aviators to train at Jackson Army Airbase ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biloxi, Mississippi
Biloxi ( ; ) is a city in and one of two county seats of Harrison County, Mississippi, United States (the other being the adjacent city of Gulfport). The 2010 United States Census recorded the population as 44,054 and in 2019 the estimated population was 46,212. The area's first European settlers were French colonists. The city is part of the Gulfport–Biloxi metropolitan area and the Gulfport–Biloxi–Pascagoula, MS Combined Statistical Area. Prior to Hurricane Katrina, Biloxi was the third-largest city in Mississippi, behind Jackson and Gulfport. Due to the widespread destruction and flooding, many refugees left the city. Post-Katrina, the population of Biloxi decreased, and it became the fifth-largest city in the state, being surpassed by Hattiesburg and Southaven. The beachfront of Biloxi lies directly on the Mississippi Sound, with barrier islands scattered off the coast and into the Gulf of Mexico. Keesler Air Force Base lies within the city and is home to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
.jpg "Click for more on -> Lexington, Mississippi")
.jpg "Click for more on -> Acona Church, Cemetery, And School")
