Odd Fellows Confederate Cemetery - Grenada MS - Odd Fellow Lodges on Waymarking.com

Tucked away in a corner of the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Grenade Mississippi are 170 graves of unknown Confederate soldiers.







GRENADA COUNTY. There is a Confederate cemetery in the town of Grenada. It is under the devoted care of the Dixie Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. This spot of earth enwraps the dead bodies of one hundred and seventy soldiers, whose names are unknown, except that of one soldier whose name is pathetically given as” Jacoby.” Most of these died in the hospital, of sickness, and came from the armies of Price, Pemberton and Van Dorn. A few wounded came from Shiloh and Corinth. The following extracts are made from a letter of Mrs. P. S. Dudley, president of the Dixie Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy:

“During my first term of office * * * the W. R Barksdale Camp of United Confederate Veterans requested the Dixie Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy to take charge of the Confederate graves. It was a pleasure to do this as best we could. Each year we have observed ‘Decoration Day’ with memorial services, covering the graves with flowers and flags. We have desired to enclose the cemetery, and have a fund started for that purpose; but all our recent efforts have been called for to aid in fitting the Beauvoir Home for our needy, living veterans."

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Location Details: Established circa 1840, this is Grenada's oldest cemetery. Buried here are amany prominent, early citizens, including Rev. Abraham Lucas, who performed the marriage of Pittsburg & Tullahoma on July 4, 1836., forming Grenada. Also buried here are victims of 1878 Yellow Fever epidemic and approx. 150 Confederate soldiers. source https://www.stoppingpoints.com/miss/sights.cgi?marker=Odd+Fellows-Confederate+Cemetery&cnty=Grenada Date of construction: 1840 location website: [Web Link]

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