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Williams-Perry-Rosamond Cemetery

Memorials	:	1
Location	:	Grenada County, USA
Coordinate	:	33.8005260, -89.6966930
Description	:	Latitude: 33.79470, Longitude: -89.70190 East on Highway #8 East of Grenada to Wildlife League Road. Left on Wildlife League Rd. approx. 2.2 miles to Reservoir Boundary Sign, then .5 miles beyond the Boundary Sign is a closed road. Walk left (west) on closed old road (now a thickly overgrown path) approx. 275 yards to what was once a clearing, a fork in the road between the Perry and Rosamond homes (ancient cedars and magnolias). Just before the fork, look for road to left (south) leading 100 steps to the cemetery (on right). In 1951, J.B. Perry's description was: 1/2 mile from Brown Cemetery (before you... Read More	Latitude: 33.79470, Longitude: -89.70190 East on Highway #8 East of Grenada to Wildlife League Road. Left on Wildlife League Rd. approx. 2.2 miles to Reservoir Boundary Sign, then .5 miles beyond the Boundary Sign is a closed road. Walk left (west) on closed old road (now a thickly overgrown path) approx. 275 yards to what was once a clearing, a fork in the road between the Perry and Rosamond homes (ancient cedars and magnolias). Just before the fork, look for road to left (south) leading 100 steps to the cemetery (on right). In 1951, J.B. Perry's description was: 1/2 mile from Brown Cemetery (before you get to it now), turn west at American Elm tree on W side of road. Walk westward past this Elm along old road for approximately 400 steps to clearing bordered with cedar trees, hence turn southward for approximately 200 feet. Graves are mostly covered with horizontal gravestones." This was the Pleasant Retreat Plantation cemetery on property owned by the Perry family on Knight's Creek. The neighboring plantations were owned by their relatives, the Williams and Rosamond families, south of the Knight-Weir plantation Weir Springs. Where Bennett Rd. and West Wildlife League Rd fork west of Wildlife League is the old way to Weir Springs. West Wildlife League Rd. (aka Weir Springs Rd.) was the south road to Weir Springs Plantation, going NW till it reaches Knight's creek and then continuing north along the bluffs above Knight's Creek and Weir's Hollow all the way to Weir's Hill where the Knight-Weir plantation stood. The road is inaccessible today except for hunters. The Weir Springs site at the top of the hill has returned to nature and, except for being the highest point for miles around, is hardly discernable since 1979 when timber thieves cut down the avenue of cedars that once led to the plantation house. Southeast of Weir Springs were the Perry and Rosamond plantations as well as the Perry-Rosamond Cemetery, sometimes called the Pleasant Retreat Cemetery after the name of the Perrys' Pleasant Retreat Plantation. Also called the Williams-Perry-Rosamond cemetery. Some historians think it may have been the site of the old Mt. Zion Church which was located somewhere in this area east of Grenada. Some of the plantations in this area belonged to the Williams, Mayhew, Rosamond, Perry, Jenkins, Fraser, Frazier families. Slaves of some of these families are thought to be buried in outlying areas of the Pleasant Retreat Cemetery, in what are now unmarked graves, and some may have been buried where their descendants after the Civil War were predominantly buried, in the black Perry Cemetery a couple of miles further to the south as well as the black Perry-Brown or Brown Cemetery at the terminus of Wildlife League Road to the north (also called Weir Springs Cemetery). Look for the road to the Perry-Rosamond cemeteries. It is well hidden. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers mounded a berm to block the road in 1978 and let it return to nature. The road is identifiable by ancient cedars, oaks and magnolias. It is not far from the last curve before the Brown Cemetery. There is a large American Elm tree beside the road. This road leads to the site of the Perry and Rosamond homes, which stood close together, identifiable by the ancient magnolias and cedars, and was once a back way to Weir Springs as well. Going west from Wildlife until just before the Perry homeplace, there is the old road (now just a path) that turns south and follows along one of the ridges for exactly 100 steps down to the graveyard on your right. GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 33.80053, Longitude: -89.69669

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Latitude: 33.8005260
Longitude: -89.6966930

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