Brandon Cemetery Walking Tour
Brandon Historical Preservation Commission. 2016. Brandon Cemetery Walking Tour. City of Brandon; Brandon Historical & Genealogical Society; Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Brandon, Mississippi
From first page: "Originally platted in 1831, the Brandon Cemetery contains more than one thousand marked graves. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010, the earliest graves from 1834 are located on the eastern side of the cemetery. Graves from 1854 can be found on the western side of the property. Two governors of Mississippi, Anselm Joseph McLaurin and Robert Lowry are buried here. Among other persons interred in the old Brandon Cemetery are Thomas S. Shaw, the town's first postmaster and surveyor of the town plat; two veterans of the Revolutionary War; over 200 Union and Confederate soldiers; Mrs. Frank Johnson (1831-1896), for whom Johnson Hall at the former Brandon Female College was named; and Susie Blue Buchanan, first female lawyer in Rankin County and the first female to practice before the Mississippi Supreme Court. In addition, there are Yellow Fever epidemic victims and un-inscribed headstones of unidentified early African American residents." Funding for this project was provided in part through a 2015 Historic Preservation Fund grant to the City of Brandon (project number MS-15-002) administered by the Mississippi State Historic Preservation Office (grant number P15AF00224) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Brandon, Mississippi is a Certified Local Government.
- Type
- Generic Document
- Authors
- Brandon Historical Preservation Commission
- Date of Issue
- 2016
- Publisher
- City of Brandon; Brandon Historical & Genealogical Society; Mississippi Department of Archives and History
- Units
- HPF
- Keywords
- Brochures; Interpretive Materials; Interpretive Tours