RAMSAY CEMETERY (INDIAN MOUND)

 POINTE-AUX-CHENES

James R. Leavell home and Ramsay Cemetery

[l-r: image made February 1954.  From the Tex Hamill-Down South Collection at MGCCC-Perkinston; image made March 1992 by Ray L. Bellande]

This unique burial ground, also called the Indian Mound Cemetery, is located at Pointe-aux-Chenes in Section 3, T8S-R8W on the old James R. Leavell (1885-1974) estate (now Holt).  It contains the remains of local pioneers, Daniel H. Ramsay (1814-1867) and Mahala Holder Ramsay (1814-1885).  An Indian mound was chosen to bury Mr. Ramsay because at the time of his demise, the surrounding low-lying lands were inundated by floodwaters.(The History of JXCO, Ms., 1989, p. 322)

The tombstone of Eunice Ramsay George (1854-1888), their daughter and the wife of Simeon George (1850-1920), was reported here by cemetery surveyors in July 1968.  Today, Mrs. George's tombstone is located in the George family cemetery on East Edgewater Drive about 2 miles northeast of the Ramsay Cemetery.(Requiem, 1969, p. 82)

REFERENCES:

The History of Jackson County, Mississippi, (Jackson County Genealogical Society: Pascagoula, Mississippi-1989).

Requiem, Jackson County, Mississippi Cemetery Records, Vol. 1, “Indian Mound”, (Jackson County Geneaolgical Society: Pascagoula, Mississippi-1969).

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