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• Good Hope Cemetery burial listing with photos of each tombstone. Located on Blackwell Road just south of New Home Road. 315921N, 0894517W.
• Clearview Cemetery burial listing with photos of each tombstone. On East Street about 1/4 mile northeast of US Hwy 49 near Mendenhall. 315849N, 0895152W.
• Thames Cemetery burial listing with photos of each tombstone. (also known as Turner Cemetery) This cemetery is off Chess Warren Road west of Hwy 541. Take dirt drive at cemetery sign. 315615N, 0894512W.
• Spring Hill Cemetery burial listing with photos of each tombstone. This cemetery is located on Shivers Road just east of Travis Manchester Road. 314854N, 0900133W.
• Drummonds Cemetery burial listing with photos of each tombstone. In Shivers Community on Irvin Jones Rd at James Sibby Rd. 314837N, 0895750W.
• Grubbs Cemetery burial listing with photos of each tombstone. On Grubb Cemetery Rd off Doris MCCallum Rd off Hwy 13 just north of Hwy 28. 315020N, 0895305W.
• Armstrong-Buckley Cemetery burial listing with photos of each tombstone. Located on James Little Road 1/2 mile off Robert Berry Road. 315009N, 0900600W.
• Banks Cemetery burial listing with photos of each tombstone. On Jupiter Rd just north of New Zion MB Church Rd. 315336N, 0900004W.
• Pleasant Valley Cemetery burial listing with photos of each tombstone. Near Merrit on Hwy 43N at Wilson Welch Rd behind Pleasant Valley Baptist Church. 315510N, 0895454W.
• Thousands of Simpson County marriage records. Be sure to check for your Simpson County ancestors. These dates are important if you wish to get a copy of the marriage license at the Simpson County Courthouse.

Simpson County was organized in 1824, seven years after statehood. The population at the time was 2,329 whites and 829 slaves. The 1860 census records a population of 6,080. The county was named for Josiah Simpson, a former Pennsylvanian, educated at Princeton. He later lived at Green Hill, near Natchez, and became a territorial judge of Mississippi and served as a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1917.

Simpson County lies in the southern half of Mississippi about midway between the Mississippi River and the Alabama state line. Mendenhall, the current County seat, is thirty one miles southeast of Jackson and 125 miles north of the Gulf of Mexico.

At the time of it's organization, Simpson County was one of the most attractive counties of the great Southwest and that is why for the first twenty years after being opened for settlement, it grew so rapidly in population. Doubtless the early settlers from Scotland, New England, Virginia and the Carolinas sent back to their relatives glowing accounts of this new country.

The attractions of this new county were many and varied. First of all, of course, was the fact that homesteads could be had for the asking, and the lands on the creeks and rivers were very fertile. Another attraction was the abundance of running water, beautiful, clear running streams, wonderful springs bubbling up in the hills. Especially notable were the great springs at Rials that form a creek at the  very beginning.

The greatest of attractions, however, were the great pine forests that  covered the county from the north to the south and from east to west. For  miles and miles one could ride through the untold thousands of trees,  standing in their solemnity, magnificent in their grandeur as they had stood  for ages. It seemed a sacrilege for them to be destroyed. We shall never  see their like again.

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