Date: August
14, 2001
Cemetery: O'Daniel Family Cemetery
Established: 1800 or earlier
Street: Billingsly Road - On land owned by Herbert Whalen
Type: Road-private
City: Senatobia
Township:
County: Tate
State: Mississippi
Nation: USA
Zip: 38618
Nearby:
Location: Rural-mixed
Land: Hillside
Watersource: Yes
Features: Old trees, vines, thorn bushes
Sign: No
Land Type: Private
Access: Permission-required
Enclosure: Steel railing fence surrounds
entire cemetery
Gate: No actual gate, but fence can be
opened on N. side.
Status: Refurbished, June-Oct
2001,cleaned and monument re-set.
Size: Small
Gravestones: Only one, 6ft. monument is
now assembled and upright
Oldest: 1812
Newest: 1887
Unmarked: Yes
Broken: Yes
Toppled: Yes
Buried: No
Removed: Yes
Weather problems: Winds and rain can
cause old and dead trees & branches near the
cemetery to fall on the grave stones.
Pollution problems: No
Association: No
Records: Unsure
Inventory: No
Records location:
Condition: Cemetery in danger of destruction
Vandalized: Yes
Police report: No
VA: Gravestones-Stolen
Overgrowth: Graves-Disturbing
Overgrowth: Gravestones-Disturbing
Vegetation: Ground-Cover
Vegetation: Vines
Drainage: Good
Problem: Restricted access
Restoration: New fence surrounding the
cemetery, large grave monument re-assembled and
standing upright.
Owner: Mr. Herbert Whalen
Use: Agricultural
Bordering: Agricultural
Change: Unknown
Reason: Agriculture
Visited: Rarely
Archeology: No
Contacted: This is my first contact.
Other Information
In a visit with my 81 year old mother, Louise
O'Daniel Carlisle Moore, we visited the cemetery. I had visited this cemetery
40 or so years ago when the wrought iron fence was still standing and
several grave monuments were still in place, but until the recent visit,
I had not thought about the cemetery. It is our "old" family cemetery
or my mothers and I hate to see history disappear, not to mention the
respect for our ancestors.
Update:
June &
October 2001, My wife, my cousin, and myself
have worked on clearing and cleaning up the
grave area. We worked with the land owner to
assist us with re-errecting the large grave
stone monument. It consists of a 4ft. statue of
a standing female figure on a 8" thick
square base and these were mounted on top of a
larger square marble stone approximately 19 to
20" high. The entire momument is about six
feet tall. Additionally, we arranged for the
land owner to install a steel, cattle proof
fence to surround the graveyard to further
protect the remaining small foot stones and the
large momument. The vegetation in the area is
very prolific and needs to be removed at least
annually to keep the vines and weeds from
overtaking the entire plot.
Support
Submitted by:
name: Russell Carlisle, Sr.
Email: russcarlisle@nwfire.net
Updated by:
Date: March
8, 2003
name: Tom Gravatt
Email: t_omlgrav@pacbell.net
