Old Pleasant Valley Cemetery, Copiah Co Mississippi
aka ...  Millsaps Cemetery

  A huge "thank you"  goes  out  to  Lora Beth Barlow Wright,  for  her  suggestion,  to
  Charlotte Barlow Farthing  for following through, and to all of you who wrote letters,
  Old Pleasant Valley Cemetery  has been cleaned up and is an historical monument! 
   Following is a  letter received  by Charlotte from the Mississippi State Archives.

 See:
  A listing of burials in Old Pleasant Valley, as well as photographs of many individual
  tombstones.    If any of you should know of individuals buried at this cemetery whom
  I have not listed,  or should  you  have  photographs  to contribute,  please send them
  either a j-peg attachment to my e-mail box:    sbarlowholmes@prodigy.net 
  or mail copies to my snail-mail box at:
  Susan BARLOW Holmes         509 Dogwood       Redfield, Arkansas  72132-9165
Charlotte Barlow Farthing
Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Post Office Box 571 * Jackson Mississippi 39205-0571 * Phone 601 / 359-6850 * Fax 601 / 359-6975
Elbert R. Hilliard, Director

  January 22, 2001

  Ms. Charlotte Barlow Farthing
  Hazlehurst, Mississippi 39083

  Dear Ms. Farthing:

     RE:  Old Pleasant Valley Cemetery

  We are pleased to inform you that the above referenced cemetery was awarded a Certificate of Historical Signifi- 
  cance by the Board of Trustees of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History at its meeting on January
  19,  2001.

  We have notified the Copiah County Board of Supervisors of this action, and it is our hope that they will exercise
  the authority granted them under House Bill #780 and thereby in their discretion repair, rehabilitate and main- 
  tain the Old Pleasant Valley Cemetery as a historical monument.  We would encourage you and your friends and
  family members to contact the supervisors to ask that they maintain the cemetery.

  We appreciate your  bringing this matter to our attention and  providing us with such good documentation.   Any
  time this Department can be of service to you, please do not hesitate to call on us.

    With all best wishes, I am
            Sincerely,
            Elbert R. Hilliard
            Secretary, Board of Trustees
  UPDATE:  June 11, 2001 

  It appears that we need to contact  the  Board of  Supervisors in  Copiah Co as suggested by Mr.  Hilliard of  the 
  Mississippi State Archives.   Gerry Bufkin Richmond just today  returned  from the cemetery, where she says the
  weeds are again waist high ...and she had problems wading in mud to the cemetery.  However, with the help of her
  granddaughter, holding the weeds away from the tombstones,  she has made photographs, and  will forward copies
  to me for downloading when time allows.  

  To voice your concerns, contact:

  Copiah County Board of Supervisors     phone:  (601) 894-1858
  100 Caldwell Dr.
  Hazlehurst, Mississippi 39083

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