SELPH-COLLINS CEMETERY, Benton County, Mississippi USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing Free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was compiled and contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Mark Renick MRenick1@aol.com *************************************************************************** Location: It is near Pine Grove Baptist church off highway 5 between Hickory Flat and Ashland. It sits off about a half mile off Pine Grove road. An old logging road leads almost right to the cemetery. It now sits in a forest that is extremely overgrown with trees, grass and vines. ALl of the graves are sunk and one grave has been vandalized. There are only 3 tombstones in the cemetery. The other graves are marked by sandrocks. Luckily family records in Bibles have been passed down and we know some of the names of people that are buried there but do not know which graves they are in. I have arranged to have the cemetery cleaned up fenced and have even ordered 4 new tombstones for Civil War veterans that we know are buried there. My next goal is to get a tombstone to identify all the names of people that I know are buried there. For name searches of this index, use the "Find" or "Search" feature of your browser. *************************************************************************** Graves with Markers William D. Collins CSA marker Born 1838 Fredrick Collins Born 1799 Nettie Tinney Collins Sarah E. Collins 1835-1923 Below lie in unmarked graves Margaret Noe Collins (wife of William Collins) Seabell Collins Rose Collins Nellie Collins (all 5 are childern of William and Margaret Collins. All of the James Collins females died young before they married) Thomas Collins Thomas M. Collins Mosouri Collins Sally Selph David Hudson Sally Maxey Hudson Martha Collins Hudson The Following are CSA Veterans and monuments will soon be erected in the cemetery. E. Hudson Miss 23rd Inf Co G Grey W. Hudson 34th Miss Inf Co F James M. Hudson 34th Miss Inf Co F Lewis J Hudson (Memorial Marker) Miss 34th Inf Co F Killed in Battle of Manassas, Va. We know for a fact there are more Selphs buried here but have been unsucessful in getting any information on them. This cemetery should be completely restored by Dec 1, 2000. ***************************************************************************