Greene County MsArchives Cemeteries.....Civil War Graves - Partial Survey More to Come
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Jimmy Trussell carverofwood1260@wmconnect.com April 24, 2007, 6:07 pm

Abstracted By: Jimmy Trussell

 Traveling south from leakesville, Mississippi, you will go 
2.3 tenths of a mile and at that point you will take a 
right hand turn. This turn will put you on Vernal River 
Road, now you will travel this road for 4.8 tenths of a 
mile. Here there will be a small house on your right with a 
chain link fence around it, and on the left about 150 yards 
farther will be a red brick house sitting back off the road 
a short distance. On your left between these two houses is 
a long sloping hill, with cut over timber. All that is left 
is brush and briars, however as you look up the hill on a 
line about even with the brick house you will see four pine 
trees and amoungst them there are two white headstones. The 
one on the left is inscribed Unknown Confederate Soldier, 
the one on the right has two inscriptions. The top 
inscription reads Unknown Confederate Soldier, and the one 
on the lower half reads Unknown U.S. Soldier.The story told 
of these graves is that after the battle, these soldiers 
were buried together in a wagon, talking with others about 
this I'm led to believe that they were indeed buried in 
crude caskets fashioned from a wagon. I was told of this 
cemetery by John Kittrell, and also walked this area on 
April 13, 2007. These stones are only visible when this 
timber has been harvested, otherwise they are surrounded by 
dense underbrush. By summers end these will again fade from 
view, and until the next crop of pine timber is harvested , 
they will remain hidden. This timber should be ready for 
harvest again in about 15 to 20 years.

Last Name      First Name    Middle Name   Birth       Death       Comment
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Confederate    Unknown       Soldier       unknown     unknown     
Confederate    Unknown       Soldier       unknown     unknown     
United States  Unknown       Soldier       unknown     unknown     



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