Mitchell Family
Columbus, Lowndes County, Mississippi, USA
The Columbus Dispatch, March 1, 1906:
In going over the land selected for park purposes, Mr Heard one day recently made quite an unusual discovery, having found a private cemetery in which three bodies lie buried.
This miniature cemetery is located under a large cedar tree, the spreading limbs of which have effectually protected the graves and the picket fence which surrounds them from the weather, as a fence is in a remarkably fine state of preservation. There is an old house a few hundred feet distance from these graves, and men who lie buried under the old cedar tree were evidently once occupants of this house.
30 acres of land was purchased for the new park and was named Lake Park which is known today as Propst Park.
UPDATE: Family located and bodies are to be removed as reported in newspaper - March 1906 .
The Columbus Dispatch, March 1, 1906:
In going over the land selected for park purposes, Mr Heard one day recently made quite an unusual discovery, having found a private cemetery in which three bodies lie buried.
This miniature cemetery is located under a large cedar tree, the spreading limbs of which have effectually protected the graves and the picket fence which surrounds them from the weather, as a fence is in a remarkably fine state of preservation. There is an old house a few hundred feet distance from these graves, and men who lie buried under the old cedar tree were evidently once occupants of this house.
30 acres of land was purchased for the new park and was named Lake Park which is known today as Propst Park.
UPDATE: Family located and bodies are to be removed as reported in newspaper - March 1906 .
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- Added: 4 Jul 2015
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2583911
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