In 1973, Genevieve Chapman Broome Jones traveled to Enterprise, Clarke, Mississippi to see if she could find the grave of Josephine and presumably her brother Charles Walter Broome. She found Josephine's grave. As reported in Genevieve's self published genealogy paper, Children Meet Your Ancestors (Broome family chapter), "The cemetery records have been carefully kept for over a century and passed from one keeper to another until, in 1973, they were in the hands of a Mrs. Durr, the town [Enterprise] librarian. When I asked about the Broome lot she consulted the map of the cemetery [Enterprise] and found it, then consulted a ledger in which the burials are recorded. There she found "Josie Broome, lot 20, third grave north of brick tomb. We drove to the cemetery, found the lot, and counted three sinks [depressions] (no stones remain) north of the "brick tomb and knew we had found Josie's resting place. An elderly citizen of Enterprise told me that she remembered when there were many gravestones in the old part of the cemetery, but since mowing is now done by machinery, more and more headstones are knocked down and finally thrown away." Is Charles Walter Broome (1859 - 1862) and his uncle, James Caldwell "Colwell" Broome (1815 - 1864) also buried in "lot 20"?
In 1973, Genevieve Chapman Broome Jones traveled to Enterprise, Clarke, Mississippi to see if she could find the grave of Josephine and presumably her brother Charles Walter Broome. She found Josephine's grave. As reported in Genevieve's self published genealogy paper, Children Meet Your Ancestors (Broome family chapter), "The cemetery records have been carefully kept for over a century and passed from one keeper to another until, in 1973, they were in the hands of a Mrs. Durr, the town [Enterprise] librarian. When I asked about the Broome lot she consulted the map of the cemetery [Enterprise] and found it, then consulted a ledger in which the burials are recorded. There she found "Josie Broome, lot 20, third grave north of brick tomb. We drove to the cemetery, found the lot, and counted three sinks [depressions] (no stones remain) north of the "brick tomb and knew we had found Josie's resting place. An elderly citizen of Enterprise told me that she remembered when there were many gravestones in the old part of the cemetery, but since mowing is now done by machinery, more and more headstones are knocked down and finally thrown away." Is Charles Walter Broome (1859 - 1862) and his uncle, James Caldwell "Colwell" Broome (1815 - 1864) also buried in "lot 20"?
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