The Odd Fellows and Confederate Cemetery, at the corner of Cemetery and Commerce Streets in

Grenada, Mississippi Grenada is a city in Grenada County, Mississippi, Grenada County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 13,092 at the United States Census, 2010, 2010 census. It is the county seat of Grenada County, Mississippi, Grenada County. History ...

is a historic cemetery. It includes

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. It was listed on the

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in 1988, for architectural criteria. The Confederate section contains about 150 graves of Confederate soldiers who died in the Grenada area. (3 pages) with The cemeteries may contain burials from several specific calamities. Grenada suffered a tornado on May 7, 1846, which destroyed 112 houses and killed 21 persons. And it suffered a fire in 1855 which burned about half of the town's buildings. And soon after the fall of Vicksburg, Grenada was site of a Union cavalry raid on August 18 and 19, 1863, which overwhelmed a token defensive force and destroyed the town's railway depot, railyard buildings, eighty locomotives and 200 freight cars. The cemetery may also include burials of victims of a devastating

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epidemic in 1878 which killed at least 363 individuals, including the mayor, of a town of about 2,000 total population. (17 pages)

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* * {{National Register of Historic Places Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi Odd Fellows cemeteries in the United States National Register of Historic Places in Grenada County, Mississippi