The Joseph Ware Cemetery is
located in rural Jackson County near Vancleave about 1.6 miles south
southeast of Mount Pleasant United Methodist Churchand lies less
than .1 mile east of Poticaw Bayou Road. The cemetery was started in
1889 with the burial of John Lother Sumrall, and the last burial
was Joseph Rogers in 1946. Perhaps as many as 100 graves are located
there, with visible evidence being either of tombstones,
depressions, or burials outlined in brick. The cemetery contains at
least one family plot, that of the Rogers family, which is set off
from the rest by a metal pipe fence. The cemetery also contains at
least one Confederate Cemetery, Albert Brown Goff (1846 - 1914), who
served in Company E, 36th Alabama Infantry, C.S.A from 1862 to 1865.
This cemetery qualified, on April 27, 1990, for designation as
a hisatoric cemeteryunder Criteria f of the "Criteria for the
Certification of Historical Significance of Abandoned Cemeteries
Under the Provisions of house Bill No. 780, Laws of Mississippi,
1971." [Compiled bu Linda Ellis, traanscribed
by Therman Kellar]
