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Kirkman Cemetery


Located near Kirkman’s Landing on the north shore of Grenada Lake on Corps of Engineers Land in Grenada County. This cemetery is one and one half miles northeast of the north end of Grenada Dam. It’s about one fourth mile east of the south end of Kirkman Landing Road, on the east side of a large hill within 100 yards of Grenada Lake.

Turn off State Highway 7 in Yalobusha County about one and one half miles northeast of the Grenada County line onto Torrance Landing/Kirkman Landing Road, CR 73. Go approximately three and one half miles south. Stay to the right when the road forks to Torrance to the left, CR 185. At the top of the last hill next to Grenada Lake walk east. The cemetery is about one fourth mile east of the road on the east side of the hill. The last half mile (south end) of the road is impassible and you must walk. The location is near the center of the southeast ¼ of Section 15, Township 23N, Range 5E. N 33.51.18, W 089.45.14.

Original recording by Billy Joe and Patsy Upchurch.
Updated by Mike Worsham on May 13, 2000.
Submitted by Mike Worsham, July 20, 2007

Applewhite, James/Died 02-03-1944
B., Clyde/Died 07-04-1900
Baker, Ann/Died 05-21-1940/Aged 19 yrs., 2 mos., 18 days
Baker, William /1860
Baskerville, Jessie/02-13-1891/09-27-1912
Dudley, Willie May/07-29-1923/09-11-1942
Eggleston, Mosses/Died 05-05-1947/Aged 64 yrs.
Female Child/Died 07/04/1900
Green, Rosa/03-17-1872/09-01-1912
Kirkwood, Sarah Freelon/03-03-1879/05-27-1948/age 69
Rounds, Charles/06-13-1878/07-01-1908
Rounds, Charles/Died 08-01-1912/Aged 62 yrs.
Sanders, Amie Jones/Died 01-26-1947/Aged 40 yrs.
Smith, Charlie/04-02-1877/03-13-1911
Stokes, O. Z./01-07-1908/08-28-1912
Thomas, Chanie/1822/07-06-1908
Wilson, Leuvena/05-09-1883/11-xx-1909