historical cemetery

A Magnolia group has asked Pike County for help in maintaining a historically black cemetery.

The Enterprise-Journal reports the cemetery is on 2.71 acres and is separated from the main Magnolia Cemetery by a chain link fence. The 15-acre Magnolia Cemetery is maintained by its own association.

“People are buried out there from the 1800s,” Celia Gordon Pearson, president of United Cemetery Association, told supervisors this past week.

Pearson said there is a lot of history out there.

“I’m just going to have to get someone to go with me plot by plot and tell me who’s buried there,” she said. […]