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RANCOEK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY - CEDAR REST CEMETERY EVENT
Mv name is Ginger Burke Paradise.. I may or may not be buried at this exact spot. This story that one of the graveyard employees tells may or may not be true:
This is the story:	I	was	a	gypsy	queen and I died here in
the local hospital. My gypsy friends gave me a celebration at the grave. It was like a "wake":	food,	drink,	dancing and tamborines.
Naturally this excitement created a crowd and some people wanted to take pictures. Gypsies don't allow pictures because they believe the camera may capture your soul, so they wouldn't allow any pictures of the event.
Even if I wasn't buried at this spot, I know that my name is Ginger Burke Paradise. I was born Sept 27? 1924 in Ft. Worth, Texas.
My father was N. 0. Burke. I married Tony Paradise of Rt 1, Bay St. Louis. I died at the age of 43. I was a patient at Hancock General for 3 days before dying. I know all this from the Riemann funeral records. I know that I was buried, in a V/ilbut vault - one of 6 vaults in this graveyard. This spot has such a vault - you can check it out with your metal detector. So far as I'm concerned, marker or no marker, I'm buried right here. Hi Ho.