Can any one tell me where the Berry-Sutton Cemetery near Florence,Ms is located? Thanks,Mary

Mary:

I have relatives buried there. Did you ever find it?

Thanks,
Stephen

Hi Stephen, No I haven't found the place where the cemetery is located ,I mean address or what road it is on. Do you have directions to it? If so I would like them.
Thanks, Mary

My only source says: "The Sutton-Berry family graveyard is about 2 miles off the highway in the woods between Florence and Brandon." Not very specific (that is a 20-square-mile area). It also says there are no headstones.

My great-great-grandfather Pleasant Berry and his father German Berry are buried there. I will be in Jackson on business tomorrow and the next day, and want to go, but don't know where.

Check out http://theusgenweb.org/ms/rankin/berrysuttoncem.html
for headstone listing

see map
http://www.rankincounty.org/TA/gis/RC_General_Index_Map.pdf

look for sec 18, T4N, R3E (enlarge map to about 400% -- near Jerusalem Church Road
look one section to the left and you will see Monterery Road, Maple St, Cedar st, Poplar St

Feature Detail Report for: Berry-Sutton Cemetery
Feature ID: 708782
Name: Berry-Sutton Cemetery
Class: Cemetery
Citation: Rankin County Historical Society. Rankin County, Mississippi Cemetery Records, 1824 to 1980. Brandon, Miss.: The Society, circa 1981. p11
Entry Date: 01-Dec-2003
Elevation(ft/m)*: /
PLSS: sec 18, T4N, R3E, Choctaw Mer

Awesome! Perfect timing, I am in Jackson on business today, so will go by there early tomorrow mornng.

Thanks,
Stephen

Thanks for the coordinates, but I could not find it after walking the pastures and woods for a couple of hours. Do you know specific directions or landmarks, or how to find them?

Sorry you were not able to locate the cemetery. If I misled you then please accept my apologizes. It is possible that the headstones no longer exist. I found the location on the internet. The web pages I referenced stated it was last surveyed Aug 1979. I myself have surveyed cemeteries and return later to find stones missing. The located I sited was from the Rankin County Historical Society. Rankin County, Mississippi Cemetery Records, 1824 to 1980. Brandon, Miss.: The Society, circa 1981. p11. see http://therankincountyhistoricalsociety.org/ -- there is an email address you may wish to write to.

Please contact me at eaja@bellsouth.net. I have some names to offer of people who might help you. I hesitate to put them on the website. Jean Armstrong

I walked the ground at the location (the county library sent GPS coordinates). There are no graves now. There IS a large trench that may be about 5-10 years old, judging by the minor erosion and young trees growing in it (which are very different in age and color than the other trees in the area). The trench is more or less the area that 15 graves would take. There is nothing else remotely entering a cemetery or gravestones in this area.

I can send photos of the trench if you are interested.

I can't tell for use, but it looks like somebody may have dug up the graves? Is that legal in this location?