PoliticalGraveyard.com

Chickasaw County
Mississippi

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Chickasaw County

Index to Locations

Okolona Odd Fellows Cemetery

---

Houston Cemetery
Houston, Chickasaw County, Mississippi

Politicians buried here:

Thomas Jefferson Busby (1884-1964) — also known as T. Jeff Busby — of Houston, Chickasaw County, Miss. Born near Short, Tishomingo County, Miss., July 26, 1884. Son of Reubin Winston Busby and Laura Ann (Bartlett) Busby. Democrat. Lawyer; Chickasaw County Prosecuting Attorney, 1912-20; U.S. Representative from Mississippi 4th District, 1923-35. Methodist. Member, Freemasons; Knights Templar; Shriners. Died in Houston, Chickasaw County, Miss., October 18, 1964 (age 80 years, 84 days). Interment at Houston Cemetery.   Presumably named for: Thomas Jefferson   Relatives: Married, June 4, 1912, to Joanna Martin.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page

---

Unknown Location
Okolona, Chickasaw County, Mississippi

Politicians buried here:
	Harvey Lee Morrison (d. 1990) — of Okolona, Chickasaw County, Miss. Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Mississippi, 1944. Died in 1990. Interment somewhere.

---

Confederate Cemetery
Okolona, Chickasaw County, Mississippi

Politicians who have monuments here:

William Wirt Adams (1819-1888) — of Mississippi. Born in Frankfort, Franklin County, Ky., March 22, 1819. Member of Mississippi state legislature, 1858; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Shot and killed in a street encounter with John Martin, a newspaper editor with whom he had quarreled, in Jackson, Hinds County, Miss., May 1, 1888 (age 69 years, 40 days). Interment at Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Miss.; cenotaph at Confederate Cemetery.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial

---

Odd Fellows Cemetery
Okolona, Chickasaw County, Mississippi

Politicians buried here:
	James Gordon (1833-1912) — of Okolona, Chickasaw County, Miss. Born in Cottin Gin Port, Monroe County, Miss., December 6, 1833. Democrat. Member of Mississippi state legislature; U.S. Senator from Mississippi, 1909-10. Died in Okolona, Chickasaw County, Miss., November 28, 1912 (age 78 years, 358 days). Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page

 

"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872

The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 234,420 politicians, living and dead.
	The coverage of the site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, and members of major federal commissions; and (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions.
	The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.
	Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.
	The official URL for this page is: http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/CH-buried.html.
	Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.
	If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the alphabetical index of politicians.
	More information: FAQ; privacy policy; cemetery links.
	If you find any error or omission in The Political Graveyard, or if you have information to share, please see the biographical checklist and submission guidelines.
Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by HDL. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on May 12, 2012.
Copyright notice: Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2011 Lawrence Kestenbaum. This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License.

---