This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Leonard Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XJB.2ACE/288.2 Message Board Post: On 1 Aug 2001 Roots Web Message Board for Rankin Co. you asked Looking for location of Pilgrim Rest Cemetery. Think it is in Rankin Co. Also, where was the town Well, Ms at. Was it in Rankin Co.? Since you have Attala Co. MS connections, I though you might like to know that Attala Co. MS has a Pilgrim Rest Cemetery and a Wells, MS. Wells Post Office It is said that John A. Wasson Started the Wells Post Office on 29 January 1857, that he was the first Postmaster and that he served it at different times over a period of several years. Wells was a Post Office kept by John Toler in 1880. Later the Wells Post Office was kept by Dick Reeves. The Post Office was on the Greensboro Road ten miles North of Kosciusko. Dock Bell had a store on Hurricane Creek and the Post Office was one mile South of the store. The schoolhouse for the Natchez Trace School was located about halfway between the store and the Post Office. Pilgrim Rest Cemetery has 2 Leonard buried there Coleman Leonard 1808 – April 28, 1892 (Broken Stone) Eliza E. Leonard, 1817 – September 3, 1868 (Broken Stone) “Attala Co. MS Cemeteries” by Marymaganos (McCool) Fenwick (Mrs. Edward Coleman Fenwick) page 253 . Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church Cemetery copied April 20, 1958 by Mrs. E. C. Fenwick of Kosciusko You probably have this information already but I thought I would send it just incase you did not know. Nancy R. Harvey Researching Attala Co. MS for HARVEY, PEE, FORRESTER, MASON, BOWLES, PEELERS