New Hope Cemetery #1 in Amory, Mississippi

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Get directions 60382 Hatley Detroit Road
Amory, Mississippi 38821 United States

Coordinates: 34.00657, -88.34280
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New Hope Cemetery #1 is an African American cemetery. The cemetery contains memorials as far back as the 1800's. There are many formerly enslaved men, women and children buried here. It was probably once connected to the white New Hope Cemetery across the road. New Hope Cemetery #1 has much historical significance to the Parham /Smithville communities. Some of those buried there attended Wallace Chapel Church of Christ, St. Paul's CME, and Spruell Chapel. The first Monday in August was decoration day for many years. Later the day was changed to the first Saturday in August. Because the cemetery is full, a new cemetery, New Hope Cemetery #2 was established.