Greenwood Cemetery, Mississippi

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Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery located near downtown Jackson, Mississippi. 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, most prominently 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.

Contents 1 Notable interments 1.1 Confederate generals 1.2 Mississippi governors 1.3 Others 2 See also

[edit] Notable interments

[edit] Confederate generals

• William Wirt Adams
• Daniel Weisiger Adams
• William Barksdale
• Samuel Wragg Ferguson
• Richard Griffith
• James Argyle Smith

[edit] Mississippi governors

• George Poindexter
• Abraham Marshall Scott
• Charles Lynch
• Alexander Gallatin McNutt
• Albert Gallatin Brown
• John Isaac Guion
• William Lewis Sharkey

[edit] Others

• Edmund Richardson
• James Henry Boyd
• Erasmus Bart
• R.H. Henry
• James Lynch
• Eudora Welty

[edit] See also

• List of Governors of Mississippi