Citizen's Cemetery
Also known as Rose Hill Cemetery
Okolona, Chickasaw County, Mississippi, USA
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part of the city.
WPA records verify that a small cemetery was situated due north of where the Confederated Monument now stands at the east end of Main Street in the downtown area. There were burials in it in the 1840s and 1850s. Family records show that Wiley Kyle was buried there around 1850, and his wife Catherine a few years later. The existence of this cemetery is practically unknown to anyone now living and there is no trace of that cemetery today.
On the southern edge of an earlier Okolona,near that historical marker, stand approximately one thousand white marble headstones, marking the graves of victims of Shiloh, Brice's Crossroads, Corinth, and Okolona battles. Three hundred of the stones in the Confederate Cemetery, or "Soldiers Cemetery" read "unknown". Other stones tell us their graves contain the remains of young men from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Flordia, Kentucky, Louisana, Missouri,South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas, as well as Mississippi. The cemetery is located next to to the old "Citizens Cemetery".
part of the city.
WPA records verify that a small cemetery was situated due north of where the Confederated Monument now stands at the east end of Main Street in the downtown area. There were burials in it in the 1840s and 1850s. Family records show that Wiley Kyle was buried there around 1850, and his wife Catherine a few years later. The existence of this cemetery is practically unknown to anyone now living and there is no trace of that cemetery today.
On the southern edge of an earlier Okolona,near that historical marker, stand approximately one thousand white marble headstones, marking the graves of victims of Shiloh, Brice's Crossroads, Corinth, and Okolona battles. Three hundred of the stones in the Confederate Cemetery, or "Soldiers Cemetery" read "unknown". Other stones tell us their graves contain the remains of young men from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Flordia, Kentucky, Louisana, Missouri,South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas, as well as Mississippi. The cemetery is located next to to the old "Citizens Cemetery".
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Okolona, Chickasaw County, Mississippi, USA
- Total memorials586
- Percent photographed88%
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Okolona, Chickasaw County, Mississippi, USA
- Total memorials43
- Percent photographed40%
Okolona, Chickasaw County, Mississippi, USA
- Total memorials10
- Percent photographed90%
- Added: 16 May 2008
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2261475
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