If anyone has heard of or has any information about Four Mile Cemetery southeast of Inverness, MS, and northwest of Belzoni off Highway 7, I would appreciate it. Currently, Four Mile Cemetery is located in Humphreys County at the intersection of Four Mile Road and Inverness Road along Four Mile Lake, but used to be in Washington County before Humphreys County was formed in 1918.

I have done some deed work to find out that one acre of land was sold by township officials in 1896 to the Four Mile Baptist Church. It is on the tax rolls as a "church" and is not taxed. But, there is no church, only an abandoned cemetery in front of an abandoned dog trot home. The land the home is on is owned by the Simmons Family.

We also came across deed work stating that the state took land through the middle of the cemetery sometime in the 1930s to build the current Four Mile Road. Did they plow through the graves or were of the graves moved.

Some of the names of persons buried there on the few visible markers are:

SHIPP (related to Hufstetler and Meek)
MEEK (related to Shipp and Hufstetler)
HUFSTETLER (also the name of one of the men on the township board who sold the land to the church)
UPCHURCH
WILLEY

I am interested in

* who is / was buried there ( I have searched the cemetery listings and see the few listed - above.),
* when was the road was placed through the cemetery (1930's?),
* were any graves moved,
* was there a Four Mile Baptist Church there,
* any history of the cemetery or church
* any people involved with the church from the early part of the century
* any reason no one currently takes care of that cemetery, etc.

I am actually trying to locate the graves of Junius Berryman Baker and Eliza Elmira Robinson Baker who lived at Bellewood Plantation in 1920 and were buried in the area. Perhaps they are buried in Four Mile Cemetery since it is close to where Bellewood Plantation used to be.

Perhaps someone knows something - no matter how small. Any help or assistance would be appreciated.

Irene