I see someone has already set up a cemetery on findagrave. My great-grandfather, William Terrell Garrett, had a sister who died in the Insane Asylum in Jackson. She was a patient on the 1900 census. The story goes her father, Joshua Garrett, would not let her marry the man she loved and she went crazy. Even if we never know which bodies were uncovered, I guess she qualifies as a memorial in that cemetery. Pat Dacus March 8, 2013 WLBT Channel 3 Jackson, Ms. by Walt Grayson JACKSON, MS -- There are signs of progress everywhere at The University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. It is odd that what is going on in the midst of such progress & advancements toward the future can all of a sudden throw open the door to the distant past. Within the last couple of weeks, removal of about 4 feet of dirt in order to prepare this particular area for new construction uncovered about 24 previously unknown & unmarked graves. Everywhere you see of the marker flags there is a body beneath it. The theory is that these people died at the old Mississippi Asylum for the insane that stood on this property from the mid 1800s until the early 1900s. UMMC was built where the old asylum once stood. Derrick Anderson, an archeologist at Misissippi State is one of the team working on the graves. "We're guessing because there's no personal remains, no clothes, not even really any bottoms or pins or anything, that they were probably residents of the asylum & either buried in a shroud or not buried with anything, so that would put them probably around in the mid to late 1800s to early 1900s." said Anderson. The bodies are carefully removed from the coffins & taken to the Cobb Archeology Institure at Mississippi State & laid out & individually examined. Dr. Nick Herman, anthropologist at Mississippi State says the remains themselves can tell a lot about the circumstances of these peoples lives. "Yea, figure out when they were buried," said Dr. Herman. "But also looking at the bones to give us information about what their lives were like in the asylum." And when the research at State is finished, the remains will come back to UMMC, Nichole Reese says a special place is already there for them. "When the university is done with it they will then file a burieal permit with the Ar ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I'm may be fixing ask a dump question.  As old as some of the bodies are, is there any way they could really find out who it is/was?  Is there any records still around for the asylum hospital. Old papers or records should be keep on some kind of reels.  There is a cemetery at Whitfield but I don't know what kind of records are kept.    Peggy ________________________________ From: "pdacus@gulftel.com" <pdacus@gulftel.com> To: Palmertree Group <palmertree@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 9, 2013 1:23 PM Subject: Re: [PTREE] Walt's Look Around: UMMC graves I see someone has already set up a cemetery on findagrave.  My great-grandfather, William Terrell Garrett, had a sister who died in the Insane Asylum in Jackson.  She was a patient on the 1900 census.  The story goes her father, Joshua Garrett, would not let her marry the man she loved and she went crazy.  Even if we never know which bodies were uncovered, I guess she qualifies as a memorial in that cemetery. Pat Dacus March  8, 2013 WLBT Channel 3 Jackson, Ms. by Walt Grayson JACKSON, MS -- There are signs of progress everywhere at The University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.  It is odd that what is going on in the midst of such progress & advancements toward the future can all of a sudden throw open the door to the distant past. Within the last couple of weeks, removal of about 4 feet of dirt in order to prepare this particular area for new construction uncovered about 24 previously unknown & unmarked graves. Everywhere you see of the marker flags there is a body beneath it.  The theory is that these people died at the old Mississippi Asylum for the  insane that stood on this property from the mid 1800s until the early 1900s.  UMMC was built where the old asylum once stood. Derrick Anderson, an archeologist at Misissippi State is one of the team working on the graves. "We're guessing because there's no personal remains, no clothes, not even really any bottoms or pins or anything, that they were probably residents of the asylum & either buried in a shroud or not buried with anything, so that would put them probably around in the mid to late 1800s to early 1900s." said Anderson. The bodies are carefully removed from the coffins & taken to the Cobb Archeology Institure at Mississippi State & laid out & individually examined. Dr. Nick Herman, anthropologist at Mississippi State says the remains themselves can tell a lot about the circumstances of these peoples lives. "Yea, figure out when they were buried," said Dr. Herman. "But also looking at the bones to give us information about what their lives were like in the asylum." And when the research at State is finished, the remains will come back to UMMC, Nichole Reese says a special place is already there for them. "When the university is done with it they will then file a burieal permit with the Ar ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Oh, thank goodness for Walt Grayson for doing this, so we could learn something about it, even if we don;t have someone there.  Maybe that is where all the Palmertree got off too. ________________________________ From: "pdacus@gulftel.com" <pdacus@gulftel.com> To: Palmertree Group <palmertree@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 9, 2013 1:23 PM Subject: Re: [PTREE] Walt's Look Around: UMMC graves I see someone has already set up a cemetery on findagrave.  My great-grandfather, William Terrell Garrett, had a sister who died in the Insane Asylum in Jackson.  She was a patient on the 1900 census.  The story goes her father, Joshua Garrett, would not let her marry the man she loved and she went crazy.  Even if we never know which bodies were uncovered, I guess she qualifies as a memorial in that cemetery. Pat Dacus March  8, 2013 WLBT Channel 3 Jackson, Ms. by Walt Grayson JACKSON, MS -- There are signs of progress everywhere at The University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.  It is odd that what is going on in the midst of such progress & advancements toward the future can all of a sudden throw open the door to the distant past. Within the last couple of weeks, removal of about 4 feet of dirt in order to prepare this particular area for new construction uncovered about 24 previously unknown & unmarked graves. Everywhere you see of the marker flags there is a body beneath it.  The theory is that these people died at the old Mississippi Asylum for the  insane that stood on this property from the mid 1800s until the early 1900s.  UMMC was built where the old asylum once stood. Derrick Anderson, an archeologist at Misissippi State is one of the team working on the graves. "We're guessing because there's no personal remains, no clothes, not even really any bottoms or pins or anything, that they were probably residents of the asylum & either buried in a shroud or not buried with anything, so that would put them probably around in the mid to late 1800s to early 1900s." said Anderson. The bodies are carefully removed from the coffins & taken to the Cobb Archeology Institure at Mississippi State & laid out & individually examined. Dr. Nick Herman, anthropologist at Mississippi State says the remains themselves can tell a lot about the circumstances of these peoples lives. "Yea, figure out when they were buried," said Dr. Herman. "But also looking at the bones to give us information about what their lives were like in the asylum." And when the research at State is finished, the remains will come back to UMMC, Nichole Reese says a special place is already there for them. "When the university is done with it they will then file a burieal permit with the Ar ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message