Carter Cemetery No 1 in Mississippi - Find a Grave Cemetery

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Jackson County, Mississippi, USA

Coordinates: 30.73053, -88.62475
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Old Matthew Carter Cemetery No 1 is located in the SALEM/AMERICUS area in Section 18 T4 R6, on the 1811 land claim of Matthew Carter in North East Jackson Co MS., within a mile of his Old Homestead.
Only two tombstones were still standing after International Paper Company cleared the land for planting trees about 1984, those of William Carter & Mary Goff Carter [photo with fence].
Several wooden markers were destroyed.

Original recording in 1968-
April 1, 1968 Mr & Mrs J.E. Krebs recorded the tombstones in Carter Cemetery No 1 for the Jackson County Genealogical Society's 'Requiem Vol 1' page 12, the first cemetery books published for Jackson County Miss.
They are:
William Carter
Mary Carter
Mary Carter [Robert & Howard Carter found just about all of her broken marker]
Susan Carter
W. B. Carter
John Carter
Samuel Davis
Mary L.E. Carter, wife of J. Helveston [pieces of her marker have been found]
Thos. Ransom Jones