Saint Matthew M B Church Cemetery in Mississippi

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Get directions 6157 US Hwy 51
null, Mississippi 39146 United States

Coordinates: 32.80720, -89.98016
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Church cemetery that is only accessible from a dirt/grass path from the street. Coming from Pickens headed towards Canton, once you pass the church's driveway, the entrance to the cemetery comes up very quickly on the right and has no signs. You can see tracks in the start of the dirt road. You travel down this "road" that becomes a grass path for about a mile until you arrive at the entrance of the cemetery. It is said to have been the location of a former slave cemetery that was passed to the church after the Civil War. It has many African American families, in marked and unmarked graves. It has not been well taken care of, so be careful for snakes, sunken graves, fire ants, and thorny bushes. If you plan to bury someone here when it's warm out, you may need to mow the grass to get to the back.