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we contact May Jim Weeks at the Picayune Item and Lenwood Davis, guardian of the cemetery. My Davis?s family had originally owned the land where the cemetery is located.
From there we drove into Picayune where we visited Mary Jim Weems at the Picayune Item newspaper. (798-4766 or home, 798-5884). She too, was very interested and offered to help in any way she could.
We then visited Josephine Megehee at the Picayune Library (798-5081. Their historical and genelogical is excellent. We made arrangements to come back and copy documents later.
We picked up a Pearl River map at the Chamber of Commerce. ]
We then visited Junita Gex at her home, and returned to the Berry Patch.
CEMETERIES
Breland Cemetery (One grave reads Breeland) is located about 4 miles north of the junction with Caesar-Necaise Road on Lee Town Road on the left side of the road, it is fenced, well kept and containes about 40 graves. It is on property known as the Leonard Lee Place, though it was originally the Breeland Place. 799-2516 or 798-6318. There is a house just west of the cemetery about 200 feet and a large modern house in view beyond the first one across a small valley.
Caesar Cemetery - (Union Baptist Church) 1716 West Union Road, Picayune, Ms. 39466, phone 798-6470. Cemetery is located at the cross roads of Union Road and
______________________. It is a large well-kept and fenced cemetery. See VF under
Cemeteries - Caesar containing Sesquicentennial Program booklet.
Gipson Cemetery - West of Caesar beside West Union Road. Fenced. Linwood Davis, guardian ( 7 Cj%-_	EVtrV)t^^


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