Asylum Cemetery
Also known as Mississippi State Insane Hospital Cemetery , Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum Cemetery , UMMC Cemetery
Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi, USA
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Get directions University Medical Center, 2500 North State Street
Jackson, Mississippi, USACoordinates: 32.33000, -90.16520 - Cemetery ID:
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In 1935 the Mississippi State Insane Hospital was closed and the patients moved to the new State Hospital in Whitfield, Mississippi. Based on historical records it is believed that 4000-7000 patients were buried there between 1855 and 1935. There are plans to have the cemetery excavated by professional archaeologists with the bodies exhumed and relocated. The limited exhumations already completed show the deceased were buried in simple pine coffins and historical accounts show the burials were usually done within a day of death and the graves were at least marked by simple wooden crosses with their name painted on them.
In 1935 the Mississippi State Insane Hospital was closed and the patients moved to the new State Hospital in Whitfield, Mississippi. Based on historical records it is believed that 4000-7000 patients were buried there between 1855 and 1935. There are plans to have the cemetery excavated by professional archaeologists with the bodies exhumed and relocated. The limited exhumations already completed show the deceased were buried in simple pine coffins and historical accounts show the burials were usually done within a day of death and the graves were at least marked by simple wooden crosses with their name painted on them.
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Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi, USA
- Total memorials12
- Percent photographed100%
- Percent with GPS92%
Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi, USA
- Total memorials126
- Percent photographed70%
- Percent with GPS65%
Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi, USA
- Total memorials2
- Percent photographed100%
- Percent with GPS0%
Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi, USA
- Total memorials424
- Percent photographed90%
- Percent with GPS8%
- Added: 23 Dec 2005
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2161647
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