Greenwood Cemetery, Mississippi
- Greenwood Cemetery, Mississippi
Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery located in downtown Jackson, Mississippi. Still in use, it was established by a federal land grant on November 21, 1821. It was originally known simply as "The Graveyard" and later as "City Cemetery" before the present name was adopted in 1899. It is the final resting place of Confederate generals, former governors of Mississippi, mayors of Jackson, as well as other notable figures, the most recent of whom is internationally acclaimed author Eudora Welty. The graves of over 100 "unknown" Confederate soldiers are also located here. Greenwood Cemetery is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Notable interments
Confederate generals
* Daniel Weisiger Adams
* William Wirt Adams
* William Barksdale
* Samuel Wragg Ferguson
* Richard Griffith
* James Argyle Smith
Mississippi governors
* George Poindexter
* Abraham Marshall Scott
* Charles Lynch
* Alexander Gallatin McNutt
* Albert Gallatin Brown
* John Isaac Guion
* William Lewis Sharkey
Others
* Edmund Richardson
* James Henry Boyd
* Erasmus Bart
* R.H. Henry
* James Lynch
* Eudora Welty
ee also
* List of Governors of Mississippi
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