The USGenWeb Tombstone Project - Sharke County, Mississippi

SHARKEY COUNTY

Click on the underlined Cemetery Name to go to a transcription of the cemetery

Click on the camera to see photos from that cemetery

To volunteer to transcribe (walk and record) a Mississippi cemetery or submit tombstone photos, please go to The USGenWeb Tombstone Project - Mississippi Submission and Contacts page

To learn how to record a survey of a Cemetery and transcribe it for uploading see Instructions for Surveying a Cemetery and Submitting It.

All submissions will be added to The USGenWeb Archives Project - Mississippi, where the USGenWeb Tombstone Project stores its submissions.

Email Registry For Contributors
Any time you see this symbol next to a name, they have registered their e-mail address at The Registry. This will be their current address.

CEMETERY

SUBMITTER

Cameta Cemetery, African American, a partial listing

Denosia Johnson-Fields

Cary Cemetery

Larry Wheeler

Golden Link Cemetery, Anguilla

Larry Wheeler

Green Chapel Cemetery, African American, a partial listing

Denosia Johnson-Fields

Kelly Cemetery

Larry Wheeler

Mound Cemetery, Rolling Fork

Larry Wheeler

Nitta Yuma, African American, a partial listing

Denosia Johnson-Fields

Ritchey Cemetery

Larry Wheeler

Spanish Fort Cemetery

Larry Wheeler

Straight Bayou Cemetery

Larry Wheeler

Vickland Cemetery

Larry Wheeler

Vicks Cemetery (African American), Anguilla

Denosia Johnson-Fields

The MSGenWeb Project - Sharkey County

US Veterans Affairs - Grave Locator

The following cemeteries are listed in the US Geological Survey web site as being in Alcorn County. Information in parenthesis ( ) indicates on which USGS map the cemetery can be found, not what community the cemetery may be in. There are more not listed here. Currently, there are many with no transcriptions or only partial listings in the Tombstone Project. Please volunteer to survey these cemeteries or others you know of in Alcorn County:

Centrana Cemetery (Rolling Fork East)
Danover Cemetery (Cary)
Delta City Cemetery (Delta City)
Elmwood Cemetery (Rolling Fork West)
Fish Lake Cemetery (Delta City)
Georgia Bend Cemetery (Delta City)
Harris Cemetery (Delta City)
Jeffery Cemetery (Holly Bluff)
Kettleman Cemetery (Holly Bluff)
Vicks Cemetery (Rolling Fork East)
Weathers Cemetery (Rolling Fork West)

Let's work together in this endeavor!

This Project is about remembering our dead and preserving our history!!!

To learn how to record a survey of a cemetery and transcribe it, submit a survey you have completed or to add your tombstone photos to the collection, please go to:

The USGenWeb Tombstone Project - Mississippi Submission and Contacts page

SORRY, BUT WE CANNOT HELP YOU WITH ANY PERSONAL RESEARCH - WE DO NOT LIVE IN MISSISSIPPI AND HAVE NO ACCESS TO ANY RECORDS.