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Wiley Grove Church Cemetery (Black)
Travel Directions: US Highway 72 east. Turn left on CR 213: turn right on CR
220. Go one mile, cross railroad, go 300 yards, turn left on a gravel road.
Graves becomes a primitive dirt lane (not passable in wet weather); cemetery
is down the dirt lane 3/10 of a mile in the woods. There is a turnaround just
before the single gravestone is seen. ( on the USGS topographical map, this
cemetery name is (“Wyly”).
Gillespie, Maggie
Born 1878
Died 09/17/1928
The headstone has a medallion engraved above the name.
It is in a circle, within which is a wavy circle, centered by a large “X”.
Between each triangle of the “X”, clockwise, beginning at the left, are the
letters, “T.”
“I.” (Or possibly “L.” apiece is broken out of the stone here), “A.” and “V.”
Above the “V”
appears to be a smaller numeral “3”, and at its’ lower right, a smaller letter
”s”.
At the bottom, the headstone reads. “Corinthian chapter 781, Corinth, Miss
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