It's 2500 North State Street. I used to work there. There is a day set aside once a year for a ceremony of the cememtery, although I was under the impression the graveswere the people who had donated their bodies to science. I really don't know which - maybe both. Public Affairs should know, since the ceremony is sponsored by them every year. Just call 601-984-1000, and ask for Public Affairs. Good luck. Lucy > > From: "Jerry Stevens" <[email protected]> > Date: 2006/10/09 Mon PM 01:21:12 EDT > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [MSRANKIN] Whitfield State Hospital > > The State Hospital was located in Hinds County, Jackson, untill soemtimes > up into the 1900s before relocating the Whitfield Location in Rankin > County. > Around 1880 it would have been at the present location > of the University Mississippi Med Center, 2200 N State St. > in Jackson. > > There is an old Asylum Cemetery still on the UMMC Campus > fenced and under lock and key. I work there and can gain access > to the cemetery if you have a name you would like researched. > I have been told that there are many unmarked graves in the cemetery. > > This is probably a long shot beings there is a vast difference in > dates but there is a 1930 State Asylum Census on the Hinds County > Genweb site. Keep in mind this census would have been taken > at the old site where UMMC is now. > http://www.rootsweb.com/~mshinds2/1930asylumindex.html > > Others out there, correct me if I'm wrong on some of this, I'm > shooting from the hip. > > good luck > > jerry > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 2:27 AM > Subject: Re: [MSRANKIN] Whitfield State Hospital > > > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > > > Surnames: WOODS, PEEPLES > > Classification: Query > > > > Message Board URL: > > > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XJB.2ACE/605.2 > > > > Message Board Post: > > > > Hi, > > I am looking for information on a brother of my Great Grandfather that > might have been admitted to Whitfield in the late 1800's, maybe 1870 or so. > Were you able to get any information or records or know how I might try to > get the information. Any help is appreciated. > > Thanks > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.13.1/466 - Release Date: 10/7/2006 > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >