SELPH-COLLINS CEMETERY, Benton County, Mississippi



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Location:  It is near Pine Grove Baptist church off highway 5 between Hickory 
Flat and Ashland. It sits off about a half mile off Pine Grove road. An old 
logging road leads almost right to the cemetery. It now sits in a forest that 
is extremely overgrown with trees, grass and vines.  ALl of the graves are sunk 
and one grave has been vandalized. There are only 3 tombstones in the cemetery. 
The other graves are marked by sandrocks.  Luckily family records in Bibles 
have been passed down and we know some of the names of people that are buried 
there but do not know which graves they are in. I have arranged to have the 
cemetery cleaned up fenced and have even ordered 4 new tombstones for Civil War 
veterans that we know are buried there. My next goal is to get a tombstone to 
identify all the names of people that I know are buried there.      

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Graves with Markers
William D. Collins CSA marker Born 1838 
Fredrick Collins Born 1799 
Nettie Tinney Collins
Sarah E. Collins 1835-1923

Below lie in unmarked graves
Margaret Noe Collins (wife of William Collins)
Seabell Collins
Rose Collins    
Nellie Collins  (all 5 are childern of William and Margaret Collins. All of the 
James Collins    females died young before they married)
Thomas Collins

Thomas M. Collins
Mosouri Collins

Sally Selph
David Hudson
Sally Maxey Hudson
Martha Collins Hudson

The Following are CSA Veterans and monuments will soon be erected in the cemetery.
E. Hudson Miss 23rd Inf Co G
Grey W. Hudson 34th Miss Inf Co F
James M. Hudson 34th Miss Inf Co F
Lewis J Hudson (Memorial Marker) Miss 34th Inf Co F Killed in Battle of Manassas, Va.

We know for a fact there are more Selphs buried here but have been unsucessful in getting 
any information on them. This cemetery should be completely restored by Dec 1, 2000.


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