Old Benton Cemetery
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Old Benton Cemetery

Benton, Yazoo County, Mississippi, USA

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    Coordinates: 32.82941, -90.25552
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Heading north-east on 433, from the 3-way stop at Old Hwy 16 and after the 2nd house leaving Benton (about 1,000 feet), there is a gravel drive on the left. In the summer of 1994 there was a red gate across this drive. Go through the red gate and continue on through a wooden gate. Immediately veer to the left, although there is no apparent road. Go up to a clump of trees. There is a barbed wire fence with a black and white gate. The cemetery is somewhere on the other side of the barbed wire fence. The mark on the map is only an approximate location.

This cemetery is in a field just outside of Benton. It is horribly overgrown and hardly anything is remaining. The names and dates came from a single typewritten sheet which I found at the library in Yazoo City, Mississippi. I was able to find an old vault which I could not identify. I also found 3 stones. Two of them are unreadable and the third is that of David Alexander Love. He matched a name and dates on the typewritten sheet so I knew I was in the right place. But no other stones remain that I was able to find. I did not find my great-grandfather's stone, but Benton was his home and his name is on the paper, so I'm sure this is where he is.

Two of the stones I found are not completely readable, but what's on them doesn't match any of the dates on the paper.






Heading north-east on 433, from the 3-way stop at Old Hwy 16 and after the 2nd house leaving Benton (about 1,000 feet), there is a gravel drive on the left. In the summer of 1994 there was a red gate across this drive. Go through the red gate and continue on through a wooden gate. Immediately veer to the left, although there is no apparent road. Go up to a clump of trees. There is a barbed wire fence with a black and white gate. The cemetery is somewhere on the other side of the barbed wire fence. The mark on the map is only an approximate location.

This cemetery is in a field just outside of Benton. It is horribly overgrown and hardly anything is remaining. The names and dates came from a single typewritten sheet which I found at the library in Yazoo City, Mississippi. I was able to find an old vault which I could not identify. I also found 3 stones. Two of them are unreadable and the third is that of David Alexander Love. He matched a name and dates on the typewritten sheet so I knew I was in the right place. But no other stones remain that I was able to find. I did not find my great-grandfather's stone, but Benton was his home and his name is on the paper, so I'm sure this is where he is.

Two of the stones I found are not completely readable, but what's on them doesn't match any of the dates on the paper.






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  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2319368