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GPS LOC 
N31 47.810
W92 35.130
About 60ft inside Grant parish.
From the benchmark at Packton bearing 260.6"M distance 2,754.3ft
 
Natchez Trace Cemetery (Packton) is about a mile west of Packton down a rock dirt road.
This is about 1/2 mile east from the end of a old tram that shows up as the town 
"Wirand" on old railroad maps. The story is that this is where people from a wagon
train trveling the Natchez Trace were burried when they became sick and died.

In the early 80s loggers started cutting trees and drove through the cemetery and over
several graves. Since I live near this site I noticed it after they had cut the first tree
and we reported it.  They were forced to stop cutting and left the trees around the cemetery.

The road has a rock base but now looks like a dirt road. The cemetery is in grant
parish and the road is in winn.

Several markers can be seen and several unmarked graves are stile viewable since they were
mounded back up by some workers brought in by Johney Moore.

Acording to my grandfather WW Melton the graves used to be marked by lighting rods. But none
can be seen today.

Someone has put up a sign and named this the Hyde Cemetery however it has never been known
as the Hyde cemetery. The Hyde cemetery is located elsewhere.


Annie P. -dau of MC & Mollie McGee - 5/25/1903 to 10/23/1905
Mack  --  son of MC & Mollie McGee - 3/23 to 5/06/1902

At least 4 sites marked by large stones.

George Wes Hyde - marker with GWH - died about 1918
Amanda Hyde - 11/15/1858 - 10/29/1911
Henry Hyde - marker with Hyde - no dates 

Next 5 concrete markers are those of infants/young children - no names 

J. Starks - no dates