tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17822534237636205642024-03-27T01:37:34.471-05:00Headboards Of Stone - A Mississippi Graveyard Rabbit BlogCemetery Blog, with haunting stories, experiences, history and photos,legends and lore, burial customs and graveyard superstitions.
Mississippi Cemeteries and the preservation and documentation of Mississippi HistoryAngela Luciushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17246492381337203630noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1782253423763620564.post-1529592726646733882014-01-29T20:06:00.001-06:002014-01-29T20:06:16.209-06:00The Life & Times of Memphis Minnie
Written based on research compilations by Angela Lucius
I have always loved Blues Music, especially from artists that were
born in or lived in Mississippi.
Memphis Minnie was one of the most influential women of the&Angela Luciushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17246492381337203630noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1782253423763620564.post-91927295855679618942014-01-29T13:32:00.002-06:002014-01-29T13:32:38.190-06:00I'm Back !!!Hello Everyone, I apologize that I have not posted anything new in a while, however I am finally back to blogging after some time off and hopefully will have some new things to share with you very soon. I hope you will continue to follow and will enjoy some new posts very shortly. Thank you all for all the comments recently that I have received from readers of my older posts. I look forwardAngela Luciushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17246492381337203630noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1782253423763620564.post-56242725269178771942011-04-08T14:23:00.000-05:002011-04-08T14:23:27.638-05:00Old, abandoned black cemetery center of controversyOld, abandoned black cemetery center of controversy By David A. Farrell, Item Staff WriterThe Picayune Item Picayune Item Fri Apr 08, 2011, 08:37 AM CDT CARRIERE — A controversy involving an abandoned black cemetery more than 100 years old here has wound up in Pearl River County Justice Court.Access to the cemetery, in the center of Stone Bridge subdivision, has become the center of the Angela Luciushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17246492381337203630noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1782253423763620564.post-27959705472402679862011-04-02T17:31:00.000-05:002011-04-02T17:31:48.067-05:00Anderson Cemetery Byhalia, Ms.Recently I was on my way to the Byhalia Cemetery to take some headstone photographs for my FindAGrave project, I just happened to look up at the right moment and noticed a headstone through the bushes, from the Hwy. Not seeing a driveway to the area, I pulled over at the neighbors house and asked the gentleman who was out in the driveway if it was a private cemetery. He didn't seem to Angela Luciushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17246492381337203630noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1782253423763620564.post-65693026882997346162011-04-01T15:41:00.001-05:002011-04-01T15:42:42.288-05:00Spring Cleaning At Old Philadelphia April 2011The Mississippi Society of Paranormal Investigators will host their annual Spring Clean-up project at the Old Philadelphia Presbyterian Cemetery in Red Banks Ms. Marshall County, on Saturday and Sunday April 16th & 17th 2011. Volunteers from the group will be raking leaves, cutting brush and clearing some fallen tree limbs . MSSPI adopted the Historic Cemetery in 2009 to assist the Angela Luciushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17246492381337203630noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1782253423763620564.post-40152772768631564962011-01-20T12:42:00.000-06:002011-01-20T12:42:01.377-06:00Grave Groomers Veterans Restoration ProjectEstablished in 1999, Grave Groomers Cemetery Restoration specializes in cemetery restoration, beautification, delivery and preservation services. Grave Groomers currently has locations in 12 states which include, California, Georgia, Idaho, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
All of Grave Groomer owners are trained Angela Luciushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17246492381337203630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1782253423763620564.post-62096606968430054732010-12-31T05:27:00.000-06:002010-12-31T05:27:10.395-06:00Corinth National CemeteryCorinth National Cemetery Corinth Ms, Alcorn Co.
1551 Horton Street
Corinth, MS 38834
Phone: (901) 386-8311
FAX: (901) 382-0750
Office Hours:
Monday thru Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Closed federal holidays except Memorial Day and Veterans Day.
Visitation Hours:
Open daily from 8:00 a.m. to sunset.
Burial Space: This cemetery has space available to accommodate casketed and cremated remains.
Angela Luciushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17246492381337203630noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1782253423763620564.post-91308407723114436092010-12-31T03:14:00.000-06:002013-05-07T10:48:05.071-05:00Mississippi Funeral Traditions and Superstitions of the 1800's
Traditions in Mississippi and the South are sometimes bound in superstition. The moment that a person dies, a whole series of customs shift into gear to speed the departed’s trip to the hereafter, and to insure the well-being of those left behind. A century ago, these rituals were commonplace. Today, they are still being practiced in some areas.
Take, for instance, the practice of embalming. Angela Luciushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17246492381337203630noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1782253423763620564.post-45329837903195112402010-12-15T17:07:00.000-06:002010-12-15T17:07:32.604-06:00Mississippi & The Spirits of GettysburgConfederate troops of Lieutenant General James Longstreet's corps marched into Gettysburg, with the left of his line anchored in Pitzer Woods by the Mississippi Brigade of Brig. General William Barksdale. The Georgia brigade of Brig. General W.T. Wofford formed just outside of the woods, but close behind Barksdale's men. The objective for Barksdale and Wofford was to attack Union troops forming Angela Luciushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17246492381337203630noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1782253423763620564.post-70758840958274765672010-10-21T05:38:00.000-05:002010-10-21T05:38:54.794-05:00Native American Death Masksby Angela L. - MSSPI
Masks have been worn by man for ritual and ceremonial purposes since ancient times and can be traced to the Egyptian and Roman periods.The Death Mask in most ancient cultures was made of wax or plaster cast of the persons face. Sometimes while alive, but usually after death had occurred. For the wealthy or the royal families, they were often cast in bronze or gold and placedAngela Luciushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17246492381337203630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1782253423763620564.post-18355686980019456902010-09-22T02:28:00.014-05:002010-09-22T03:04:12.345-05:00Strange Voices at Sardis CemeteryStrange Voices at Sardis Cemetery
Holly Springs Ms.
Article and Photos by Angela L MSSPI
Marker inscribed TJC
b. Apr 1, 1811d. Nov 17, 1862
In the fall of 2008, two of my brothers were deer hunting in North Central Mississippi a few miles east of Holly Springs, on what is a combination of Holly Springs National Forest and private owned lease land.
They had lost a deer and sinceAngela Luciushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17246492381337203630noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1782253423763620564.post-88878256901008864942010-08-18T19:32:00.000-05:002010-08-18T19:32:45.293-05:00Societies & Symbols Found In Cemeteries Part 2 of 3 H-LHOGD Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
This order formed in England at the end of the 19th century. Members believed it was possible to control the forces of nature with magic. Yeats, the poet, and Aleister Crowley were members. Crowley supposedly accomplished the ability to become invisible. Israel Regardie was one of the most important figures in the Golden Dawn. He published many of the Angela Luciushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17246492381337203630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1782253423763620564.post-86563342329172933352010-08-17T02:31:00.135-05:002010-08-17T06:05:08.159-05:00Societies and Symbols Found In Cemeteries Part I A-GThe Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, commonly known as Shriners and abbreviated A.A.O.N.M.S., established in 1870 is an appendant body to Freemasonry, based in the United States. The organization is best-known for the Shriners Hospitals for Children they administer and the red fezzes that members wear. The organization is headquartered in Tampa, Florida. Shriners Angela Luciushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17246492381337203630noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1782253423763620564.post-1162403643443669002010-08-16T09:02:00.002-05:002010-08-17T02:49:17.400-05:00Gravestone Composition, Cleaning & RubbingGravestones are usually composed of one of five types of stone. This article will list the types of stone commonly found, cleaning techniques and rubbing instructions.
Common Gravestone types:
Slate: 1650-1900 - Metamorphosis Shale
The earliest stone used extensively in American gravestones. The Boston, MA area was the hub of American gravestone carving activity, from approximately Angela Luciushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17246492381337203630noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1782253423763620564.post-35439861787246892822010-08-11T17:44:00.000-05:002010-08-11T17:44:08.377-05:00Mississippi Born Blues
Mississippi Born Blues Artists
Big Bill BroonzyBorn: June 26, 1893, Scott, Mississippi
Died: August 15, 1958, Chicago, Illinois
Also known as: William Lee Conley Broonzy
Grave Location: Lincoln Cemetery, Blue Island, Illinois USA
As a young boy Big Bill Broonzy would return home from a day's fieldwork with cornstalks, which he'd rub together as a homemade fiddle while his many brothers and Angela Luciushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17246492381337203630noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1782253423763620564.post-85405318077568141502010-08-06T07:13:00.001-05:002010-08-06T07:16:42.742-05:00Hernando de Soto - Explorer or Greedy Grave Robber?
Hernando de Soto
Explorer or Greedy Grave Robber?
by Angela L MSSPI
Hernando de Soto was born between 1496 and 1500 in the mountainous area of Jerez de los Caballeros in Badajoz Spain. At the age of 14, de Soto sailed for the Isthmus of Panama with the aging governor of Darien, Pedro Arias Davila. He had seen many shipments of products and goods from the Indies as a child. Gold, sugar, herbs,Angela Luciushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17246492381337203630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1782253423763620564.post-6808879124489817732010-07-13T04:30:00.000-05:002010-07-13T04:30:17.068-05:00Early Settlers On The Pototoc Trail - Potts Camp, MS.The Pontotoc Trail, used for so many years by the early settlers of Mississippi, was once an old Indian trail. Later it became a road. Although Mississippi became a state in 1817, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians held a large part of the land. By the treaties of Dancing Rabbit and Pontotoc of 1830 and 1832, the Indians agreed to give up the land in the Mississippi and move west of the Mississippi Angela Luciushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17246492381337203630noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1782253423763620564.post-90640737016713857292010-05-11T08:21:00.000-05:002010-05-11T08:21:48.394-05:00Hillcrest Cemetery Holly Springs MississippiHillcrest Cemetery came into use in the 1830's, following the Chickasaw Secession. Most of the oldest and earliest headstones have long ago crumbled and been carted away. But there are a few remaining stones that mark this early era. Leaving only a small clue as to the original age of the cemetery.
While many prominent plantation families had their own family plots set aside on their own land, Angela Luciushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17246492381337203630noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1782253423763620564.post-75461934860214577322010-05-02T12:59:00.004-05:002010-05-02T13:13:29.982-05:00A Tragedy In God's House by Angela LChrist Episcopal ChurchHolly Springs MSMarshall Co.
The Christ Episcopal Church sits magestically on the corner for Randolph & Van Dorn in downtown Holly Springs, Ms. It was built in Gothic style, complete with a slave gallery, gorgeous stained glass windows and fine wood details.
But, the history of, the tragic death of a well known and respected Reverend, would forever linger in Angela Luciushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17246492381337203630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1782253423763620564.post-36350728146079766292010-04-07T19:24:00.004-05:002010-04-07T19:40:56.418-05:00Daltons of Lafayette Co MississippiI have been wanting for some time now to write about my relatives. My maiden name is Dalton. I have spent all my life being asked " Are you related to the famous outlaws the Dalton Gang? " While I have spent many years trying to find the answer to this question, I still have not been able to make a connection. But it is really not a big deal to me either way. I would like to share some Angela Luciushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17246492381337203630noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1782253423763620564.post-3782419042641487812010-03-07T07:25:00.002-06:002010-03-07T08:01:54.230-06:00Where Rebel Spirits RoamThe Confederate Cemetery of Oxford, Ole Miss Campus
A single, grey, stone monument stands tucked behind a low brick wall, unnoticed by most. It stands in the center of the Confederate Cemetery, behind Tad Smith Coliseum, on the Old Miss Campus, in Oxford, Mississippi. The Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy is responsible for placement of both the stone Angela Luciushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17246492381337203630noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1782253423763620564.post-91503145617688982022010-03-06T10:34:00.001-06:002010-03-06T11:37:25.128-06:00Confederate Cemetery FundraiserConfederate Cemetery Fundraiser
Since 1873 the Southern Memorial Association has privately owned and maintained the 3-acre Confederate Cemetery in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The association will have a drawing on Saturday June 6, 2010, during the annual memorial service at the Confederate Cemetery. Tickets are $1.00 each and all money will go toward the maintenance of this historic Confederate Angela Luciushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17246492381337203630noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1782253423763620564.post-84347848742398343582010-03-05T07:57:00.000-06:002010-03-05T07:57:38.912-06:00Vicksburg National Cemetery & Cedar HillVicksburg National Cemetery encompasses 116 acres, and is the resting place of of 17,000 Civil War Union soldiers, a number unmatched by any other national cemetery. It was established by an act of Congress in 1866.
During the Civil War, soldiers that succumbed to wounds or disease were typically buried close to where they died. If their name was known, their grave could be marked with whateverAngela Luciushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17246492381337203630noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1782253423763620564.post-57759427058091270112010-02-12T04:14:00.000-06:002010-02-12T04:14:59.893-06:00In The Company of AngelsIn almost every cemetery I visit , I see Angels all around me. I have gathered quite a collection of them and thought I would share just a few of my favorites. I am also including two poems I wrote that were inspired by a walk through the cemetery in the company of Angels.
Angel Babies At Odd Fellows Cemetery DelawareThese little angels were photographed at the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Angela Luciushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17246492381337203630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1782253423763620564.post-31066204057638838842010-02-03T02:12:00.000-06:002010-02-03T02:12:36.870-06:005 Things To Learn From a Death RecordMany people looking for information on their ancestors skip right past the death record, heading in a beeline for information on the individual's marriage and birth. Sometimes we already know where and when our ancestor died, and figure it's not worth the time and money to track down the death certificate. Another scenario has our ancestor disappearing between one census and the next, but after aAngela Luciushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17246492381337203630noreply@blogger.com2