BOOTH-SANDLIN CEMETERY - Van Buren Community,  Itawamba Co., MS

File prepared by Nancy Parker Fruge' (nfruge@bellsouth.net .

This is a very old cemetery in the southwestern part of Itawamba County.  It is located on private property and sits on top of a wooded hill.  The 50'x55' cemetery is fenced in barbed-wire.  At this time there are only nine marked graves existing and about that many small concrete markers with no lettering.  It is obvious that there are many other unmarked graves in this abandoned cemetery.

Directions: Take Hwy 78 from Fulton to the Peppertown exit.  Turn north on Hwy 178, then right onto the Peppertown Road.  Continue for 1.7 miles, then turn left on the Carolina-Van Buren Road. Continue for 3.4 miles and there will be a Booth-Sandlin Cemetery sign on the right.  This road goes to a house at the end.  Beyond the grass lawn, a dirt road winds up a hill to the cemetery. Rows run from west to east and graves are recorded from left to right.  The coordinates are SW 1/4, Section 23, Township 10, Range 8.

Recorded by Nancy Parker Fruge' of Tupelo, MS on Nov. 20, 2003.

Row 1 at north fence
4 unmarked concrete headstones
SANDLIN, Margaret Elizabeth [Booth](w/o A.E.)   12 Dec 1855 - 3 Mar 1928
   [d/o Thomas Harper BOOTH & Nancy Jane CHILCOAT; m. Augustus E. SANDLIN]
SANDLIN, Rev. A. E. [Augustus Elliott]                 1861 - 1940
DEVALL, Albie Lou      (w/o Flurry)             04 Sep 1891 - 22 Jun 1942

Row 2
3 unmarked concrete headstones
WALLACE, David W. P.                            10 Nov 1829 - 27 Jan 1889
2 unmarked concrete markers
BOOTH, David E.  (s/o TH & NJ)                  22 Apr 1869 - 17 Nov 1873
BOOTH, Sallie B. (d/o TH & NJ)                  24 Jun 1871 - 18 Apr 1874
BOOTH, John W. (In Memory of) Co. H 1 Miss Inf C.S.A.  1843 -1863
                          [s/o Thomas Harper BOOTH & Mary Ann Jane FARLEY]
BOOTH, Thomas Harper  (Mason)                   07 May 1807 - 25 Jan 1871
              [s/o Howard BOOTH & Nancy Howard JONES; m1 Francis MEDLOCK, 
                               m2 Mary Ann Jane FARLEY, m3 Nancy CHILCOAT]
BOOTH, Nancy Chilcoat Dulaney                                ???? - 1834
           [d/o Thomas CHILCOAT & Permelia ELKINS; m2 Thomas Harper BOOTH]
2 unmarked concrete headstones

                      - End of BOOTH-SANDLIN CEMETERY - 

NOTE:  Betty Laney contributed information useful to this annotation.