Hello, I just read in my local paper that Brown's Plantation cemetery in Madison County is about to become the latest casualty of the new Nissan factory that is being built there. The cemetery is said to contain more than 30 graves, only one of which is marked (Frank Brown, died 1928). The chancery court has been asked to grant permission to move the cemetery to a more desirable and historically prominent and accessible location. The paper says that a search for "living heirs" has been made but none have been located. If it were my family I would be interested (and horrified), and if I lived out of state I never would have known about it. Pam Gibbs http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gpakt/

This isn't unusual. International Paper had the Old Carter Cemetery in north Jackson County bulldozed and, after repeated claims that they would restore it, have done absolutely nothing....The mill is closing in Moss Point and I don't suppose that IP will ever do anything about the cemetery they destroyed.....Just my thoughts. Regards, Jim Date forwarded: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 11:15:47 -0600 From: "Pam Gibbs" <gpakt@netdoor.com> Date sent: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 12:04:45 -0500 Subject: [MISSISSIPPI] Madison County Cemetery--Brown's Plantation To: MISSISSIPPI-L@rootsweb.com Forwarded by: MISSISSIPPI-L@rootsweb.com > Hello, > > I just read in my local paper that Brown's Plantation cemetery in > Madison County is about to become the latest casualty of the new > Nissan factory that is being built there. The cemetery is said to > contain more than 30 graves, only one of which is marked (Frank Brown, > died 1928). The chancery court has been asked to grant permission to > move the cemetery to a more desirable and historically prominent and > accessible location. The paper says that a search for "living heirs" > has been made but none have been located. > > If it were my family I would be interested (and horrified), and if I > lived out of state I never would have known about it. > > Pam Gibbs > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gpakt/