Watson Chapel Cemetery
Prominent early settler George Adams and his wife, Orinda Hester Scott, donated land for this cemetery in 1883. Although the gravestone of Tilman Scott Ingram, who was reinterred here from another cemetery, bears an earlier death dated (1880), the first recorded burials were those of John Edwards in 1883 and Orinda Adams' parents, Hester Ann Scott in 1885 and James M. Scott in 1887. Many people who worked in the area's lumber industry are interred here. Watson Chapel Cemetery is maintained by an association of descendants of persons buried here.
30.6776° N, 93.8123° W
Where to Find It
1 mi. S of Bleakwood on SH 87
Nearby Markers
- <0.1 mi NE Watson Chapel Methodist Church Bleakwood
- 1.7 mi NW Bleakwood Cemetery Bleakwood
- 2.3 mi SE Biloxi Evergreen Cemetery Newton
- 2.7 mi E McFarland-Wilson Cemetery Bleakwood
- 3.2 mi SE Biloxi Community Bleakwood
- 4.3 mi S Trout Creek Missionary Baptist Church Newton