Cemetery:
Calviton
Other:
Sign: No
Street: Woodlawn Plantation, Jefferson Co., MS
City: 12 miles west of Fayette,
Township:
County: Jefferson Co.
State: Mississippi
Nation: United States
Zip:
Status: Abandoned
Size: Medium
Directions: Woodlawn Plantation (Mrs. Elizabeth Knapp Wagner's
place) state highway dead ends at Woodlawn and the cemetery is in the
woods about 1/4 mile southwest behind the house.
Type: Road-public
Location: Rural-mixed
Terrain: Level
Watersource: No
Features: cedar tree stumps at all corners
Land Type: Private
Access: Permission-required
Enclosure: Wall-Broken
Gate: None
Established: July 1810
Gravestones: 25
Oldest: Mary Ann Calvit Hunt, July 1810
Newest:
Removed: Unknown
Relocated: No
Repairs: Yes
Methods: Other
Restoration: Unsure
Association: No
Records: Unsure
Inventory: Yes
Records location: Ann Brown, Rt. 2 Box 235, Lorman, MS 39096
Landscaping: Yes
Paths: No
Trees: No
Crypts: Unsure
Fencing: No
Walkways: No
Brickwork: Yes
Ironwork: No
Sculpture: No
Fountains: No
Roads: No
Buildings: No
Cement:
Granite: Yes
Marble: Yes
Native Stone:
Slate:
Other Stone:
Wood:
Materials:
Architectural: Unsure
Angels: Unsure
Draperies: Unsure
Fraternal: Unsure
Hands: Unsure
Lambs: Unsure
Monograms: Unsure
Plants: Unsure
Photos: Unsure
Religious: Unsure
Scrollwork: Unsure
Urns: Unsure
Other Carvings: Unsure
Condition: Cemetery poorly maintained
Unmarked: Unsure
Broken: Yes
Toppled: Yes
Disintegrating: Yes
Buried: Unsure
Weather problems: Unknown
Pollution problems: Unknown
Vandalized: No
Overgrowth: Graves-Disturbing
Overgrowth: Gravestones-Disturbing
Overgrowth: Gravestones-Damaging
Vegetation: Trees
Vegetation: Ground-Cover
Drainage: Good
Owner: Cemetery
Use:
Bordering: Woods
Change: Same
Reason:
Visited: Rarely
Archeology: Unknown
Habitat: Yes
Contacted: No one, your the first.
Needs
The trees and brush need to be cleared out of
present cemetery. Someone cut down the Cedars and Pin Oak trees that
surrounded the cemetery and now it has grown up with the sunlight that
is coming into the area. (briars, brush, etc.)
Other Information
Thomas Calvit left this cemetery next to the
State Road for his family and others that didn't have a place to be
buried. David Hunt and his family, along with his first wife Mary Ann
Calvit Hunt, are buried here. David Hunt is a very important historical
figure in Jefferson and Claiborne Co., MS. Hunt's gravestone is broken
and fallen along with other gravestones. Slaves are buried here along
with others outside the walls of Calviton cemetery.
Support
Submitted by:
name: Edwin B. Calvit
Email: bcalvit@earthlink.net
Date: 23 Sept. 2001
