Swamp Grove Missionary Bastist Church Cemetery, Tallahatchie, MS
Submitted by Helen Arnold

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SWAMP GROVE M.B. CHURCH CEMETERY
Philipp, Mississippi

PHILIPP
Located six miles Southwest of Macel.  Philipp is situated in the neck
of the bend on the South side of the Tallahatchie River. It is only 
two miles across the neck to the river again.  In this bend is a large
acreage of land.  J.L. Townes bought and developed five plantations; 
Beulah, Moss, Palo, Alto, The Bend and Omega.
In the late 1880's representatives of the Schlitz Brewing Company of
Milwaukee Wisconsin  were in search of fine long staves for building 
casks that were to be shipped to France.  They found the wood they 
needed in the forest where Philipp now stands.  They organized the 
Delta Cooperage Co., put in mills and laid the first railroad as a 
logging road in the woods near there in 1888.  
The  Railroad was built through there in 1888-1890.  The site was made
a station and the Wisconsin people named it for their Governor.

Indexed by Nick Denley, Clerk of Chancery Court Tallahatchie County 
Mississippi.

B:
Blue, Ethel W./12-25-1897/06-05-1988

C:
Cashaw, P.C./06-23-1958/06-08-1965

D:
Dudley, Bertha M./04-18-1931/02-05-1967

H:
Holmes, Calvin/02-23-1908/05-19-1981
Holmes, David, Sr./11-11-1885/01-10-1980
Holmes, Mrs. M.L./01-23-1935/03-28-1990
Holmes, Robert A./06-12-1954/01-23-1973
Holmes, Rosie/10-09-1890/07-17-1964

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