Eli and Mollie Eliza Jane Edwards Snow

This large zinc double grave stone in Bethlehem Cemetery near Ackerman, Choctaw County, marks the burial place of Eli Snow and his wife, Mollie Eliza Jane Edwards Snow. Eli was born on December 31, 1843 and died February 8, 1924. His widow, born on November 9, 1869, lived slightly over 42 years before her own death. Mollie Eliza Jane Edwards Snow died on July 5, 1966, just four months short of her 97th birthday.

Beautiful Monument of Carthagenia Scott Hamblen

Camden Cemetery, named for the community of the same name, is located near the intersection of Highways 17 and 43. It is a fairly large cemetery in an otherwise sparsely populated area of Madison County, Mississippi, and it contains many old graves. The names of those buried here, like so many others in the state, trace the migration of settlers to Mississippi from a half dozen or so of the former colonies and from a few foreign countries.

One of the graves in Camden Cemetery is graced by a beautiful grave stone, shown here, that marks the burial place of Carthagenia Scott Collier. The marker is the same as one located in Mount Bluff Cemetery near Flora that I wrote about last week. Both markers appear to be made of masonry and metal, likely zinc.