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Cemetery: Horton Family
Cemetery
Other:
Sign: No
Street: Not sure of the
road number, believe it to be unmarked.
City:
Grenada or Coffeeville
Township:
County: Grenada
State: Mississippi
Nation: US
Zip:
lat_ns: N
lat_h:
lat_mmss:
long_ew: W
long_h:
long_mmss:
Status: Inactive
Size: Small
Directions: Travel Hwy. 330 South of
Coffeeville until you get to the Gums Crossing turn off on County Road
221. Go across the Skuna River and turn onto County Road 229 and follow
the road signs to Carver Point on Grenada lake. When you get to Carver
Point you will be in Grenada County. Instead of going into the Carver
Point area, take the right at the turn and stay left for about 2 miles
before you come to the dead end at the cemetery. Between Carver Point
and the cemetery you will have passed a couple of marked and gated
roads to the right, but stay left. If you go trying to find the
cemetery, don't ask someone where the Horton cemetery, because there is
a black Horton cemetery about 6 miles from there to the east of Carver
Point that is on a blacktop road. It is the most well known of the two,
and you will probably end up there. Total distance from Coffeeville to
our cemetery is about 15 miles. The lake will be just below the
cemetery and the cemetery will be to the right of the road. .
Type:
Road-public
Location: Rural
Terrain: Hillside
Watersource: Yes
Features: Just a gently sloping
hillside with some trees and Grenada Lake about 100 yards south of the
cemetery.
Property: Public
Access: Open
Enclosure: Fence
Gate:
Non-locking
Established: At latest early 1870's probably earlier.
Gravestones: 25
Oldest: January 9, 1878
Newest: June 10, 1959
Removed: Unknown
Relocated: No
Repairs: Yes
Methods: Other
Restoration: Yes
Association: No
Records: No
Inventory: Unsure
Availability:
Landscaping: No
Paths: Yes
Trees: Yes4
Crypts: No
Fencing: No
Brickwork: No
Ironwork: No
Sculpture: No
Fountains: No
Roads: No
Buildings: No
Cement: Yes
Granite: Yes
Marble: Yes
Native: No
Slate: No
Others: No
Wood: No
Materials: No
Architectural: Yes
Angels: No
Draperies: No
Fraternal: No
Hands: No
Lambs: No
Monograms: No
Plants: Yes
Photos: No
Religious: Yes
Scrollwork: No
Urns: No
Carvings: Yes
Condition: Cemetery poorly maintained
Unmarked: Yes
Broken: Yes
Toppled: Yes
Disintegrating: No
Buried: Unsure
Weather: No
Pollution: No
Vandalized: Yes
Report: No
VA1:
Gravestones-Overturned
VA2:
Gravestones-Broken
VA3:
VA4:
VA5:
Graves-Desecrated
Overgrowth: None
Overgrowth1:
Overgrowth2:
Overgrowth3:
Overgrowth4:
GroundCover: Yes
Moss:
Vines:
Drainage: Good
Problem1:
Problem2: Apathy
Owner: Cemetery
Use:
Recreational
Bordering: Recreational
Change: Same
Reason: Roads
Visited: Occasionally
Archeology: No
Habitat: Yes
Contacted: None
Surnames:
Horton
Other_Information:
This cemetery is in danger of becoming inaccessable, which is illegal
to let happen. It is almost impossible to access it without going in a
truck with good dround clearance. There are a couple of non-Horton's
buried there, but I don't have the names in front of me. In the early
90's someone drove through it and broke two of the oldest headstones.
Because the family took action, the county put up a crude fence around
it. Now, the fence has become the target of people who evidently have
no respect for the cemetery. The County Supervisor will not maintain
the road leading to it, and it is hard to get to. I hope that this will
change soon. I have been working on the cemetery and fence as I can. It
is hard to keep it up nicely though, because it is so isolated and far
away from where I live. The cemetery has a small path through the
middle of it until you get about halfway into it. It stays somewhat
grown up even though I try to work on it each year. There are supposed
to be a few unmarked graves in the cemeter
Support:
Call Columbus Hankins-District 3 Supervisor at 662-226-2033, or the
District 3 County Barn at 662-226-2199. Also call the US Corps of
Engineers as they might be able to help in this effort at 662-226-5911.
You can also call me, Josh Stovall at 662-326-7843 or Harold Horton at
662-226-7434.
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Name:
Josh Stovall
Email: s_tovall62@hotmail.com
Date:
4-19-2005
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