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John Jackie Knight moved to Mississippi in 1801, settling first in Union County and then moving to the area of Jasper County in 1811 to establish plantations [4]: 62 Newton's father, Albert (1799–1862), however, neither owned slaves nor inherited any after his father's death. [6] Newton Knight never owned slaves.
This list of cemeteries in Mississippi includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
Rachel Knight (1840 - February 11, 1889) was the African-American common-law wife to Newton Knight (1829-1922). In 1881 she was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . She was depicted by Gugu Mbatha-Raw in Gary Ross ' 2016 feature film Free State of Jones .
Odd Fellows Cemetery (Starkville, Mississippi) V. Vicksburg National Military Park; W. Wintergreen Cemetery
The organization was officially incorporated as The Robert Johnson Mount Zion Memorial Fund in late 1989, to raise money to save the 114-year-old Mount Zion Church (founded 1909) from foreclosure and to place a cenotaph historic marker (not a headstone as is often mistaken – the monument bears no birth/death dates) in the Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church cemetery, in honor of Robert ...
Earlier this month, journalists told the family Jonathan David Hankins’ body had been buried in a pauper’s cemetery in Hinds County, Mississippi, in August 2022. Now, Gretchen Hankins is ...
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Confederate Monument, Mississippi Department of Archives and History Building, dedicated June 1891. [2] [3] [4] In front of the Old Capitol Museum.Unusual in that a former slave and Republican member of the legislature, John F. Harris, spoke passionately in favor of it, while some whites spoke against it.