Odd Fellows Cemetery (Starkville, Mississippi)

	Odd Fellows Cemetery
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Jct. of US 82 and Henderson Street,; Starkville, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, U.S.
Coordinates	33°28′0″N 88°49′15″W / 33.46667°N 88.82083°W
Area	3 acres (1.2 ha)
NRHP reference No.	90001064
Added to NRHP	July 24, 1990

The Odd Fellows Cemetery in Starkville, Mississippi is a historic, 3-acre (1.2 ha) African-American cemetery that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.^[1]

Odd Fellows Cemetery is one of the oldest African American cemeteries in Mississippi.^[2] It was founded by lodge number 2948 of the Grand Order of Odd Fellows of America. Burials began in the 19th century, but permanent markers were not in use until the 1920s. In 1939 the Odd Fellows Lodge sold the cemetery to National Funeral Home, a white-owned company that continued to operate it as an African-American cemetery. The property has changed several times since then.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ Mississippi Department of Archives and History. "Odd Fellows Cemetery – State Historical Marker". Retrieved April 7, 2011.
^ Marszalek, John F. Mississippi Women: Their Histories, their lives: Sadye Wier (1905–1995) A Life of Independence and Service. University of Georgia Press. pp. 213–214. ISBN 978-0820325033.

External links

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[2] Mississippi Department of Archives and History. "Odd Fellows Cemetery – State Historical Marker". Retrieved April 7, 2011.

[Marszalek-3] Marszalek, John F. Mississippi Women: Their Histories, their lives: Sadye Wier (1905–1995) A Life of Independence and Service. University of Georgia Press. pp. 213–214. ISBN 978-0820325033.

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