Memorial Garden Cemetery
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Memorial Garden Cemetery

Banner, Calhoun County, Mississippi, USA

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    Coordinates: 34.14615, -89.44416
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This cemetery is on the Mississippi on the State Historic Markers registry. The sign marking the entrance to the cemetery reads: This is the resting place of freed Black people and their descendants. The members of the Hawkins, Pearson, Reese, Steen and Shipp families established the Mt. Pleasant Church, Bryant School, a cotton gin, grist mill and a blacksmith shop in Calhoun County.

The cemetery is on private property and access can only be obtained by contacting Mrs Essie Kennedy of Detroit, MI, a descendant of the original Shipp family or from the Mississippi State Historical Museum, in Jackson Mississippi.

The cemetery is approximately 0.4 miles from the the historical marker up a winding pasture road, which is only accessible on foot. The area itself is surrounded by a chain link fence. Most of the interments (approximately 100) are indicated with either markers without inscriptions or stones. There are scattered among these 20 or so identifiable headstones.



This cemetery is on the Mississippi on the State Historic Markers registry. The sign marking the entrance to the cemetery reads: This is the resting place of freed Black people and their descendants. The members of the Hawkins, Pearson, Reese, Steen and Shipp families established the Mt. Pleasant Church, Bryant School, a cotton gin, grist mill and a blacksmith shop in Calhoun County.

The cemetery is on private property and access can only be obtained by contacting Mrs Essie Kennedy of Detroit, MI, a descendant of the original Shipp family or from the Mississippi State Historical Museum, in Jackson Mississippi.

The cemetery is approximately 0.4 miles from the the historical marker up a winding pasture road, which is only accessible on foot. The area itself is surrounded by a chain link fence. Most of the interments (approximately 100) are indicated with either markers without inscriptions or stones. There are scattered among these 20 or so identifiable headstones.



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  • Added: 27 Mar 2014
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2535093