Johnson Church Cemetery, Tallahatchie, MS Submitted by Helen Arnold ****************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ****************************************************************** Johnson Church Cemetery Indexed by Nick Denley December 1997, Clerk of Chancery Court Tallahatchie County Mississippi. Every Effort has been made to make this Cemetery as accurate as possible. This cemetery located at Brazil. Brazil is located seven miles Northeast of Sumner. A man called Lay settled the site in the mid 1800's and called it Lay. He later named it Bessie after his daughter. Smith Murphree owned the land in 1906 and when the railroad came through it was called Murphree's Spur. For some unknow reason, In 1915 it was changed to Brazil. Double Marker/Wed-09-23-1948 Perryman, Ely/03-12-1898/06-23-1991 Perryman, Ora Lee/08-16-1917 Wilkins, Laverne C./03-04-1917/05-17-1993 Double Marker Wilkins, Leverne/05-04-1917 Wilkins, Frank/06-08-1902/11-16-1985