Abbeville, Mississippi One Place Study

Location: Abbeville, Lafayette, Mississippi, United States
Surnames/tags: One_Place_Studies Mississippi United_States

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Contents 1 Abbeville, Mississippi One Place Study 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Geography 1.3 History 1.4 Population 1.4.1 Notables 1.5 Historic Places 1.6 Cemeteries 2 Sources

Abbeville, Mississippi One Place Study

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Introduction

Abbeville is a very small rural town of about 372 people as of 2020 ^[1] that is approximately 13 miles (21 km) northeast of the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) in Oxford. It was originally settled by people from Abbeville, South Carolina in the 1830s. On some census records, Abbeville is part of "Beat 3, Lafayette, Mississippi".

Geography

Continent: North America

Country: United States of America

State/Province: Mississippi

County: Lafayette

GPS Coordinates: 34.504525, -89.500713

Elevation: 122.1 m or 400.5 feet

History

Population

Notables

• Carl Craig, 1878-1957, politician (needs profile)
• Jennifer Gillom, b. 1964, former WNBA player and Olympic gold medalist (WikiTree Profile)
• Peggie Gillom-Granderson, b. 1958, former basketball player, former coach, and current religious leader (needs profile)
• L. C. Gordon, b. 1937, former basketball player and coach (needs profile)
• Stan Kesler, 1928-2020, musician, record producer and songwriter (needs profile)
• Alexander Preston Shaw, 1879-1966, pastor, editor, and bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Church (needs profile)
• Gerald Vaughn, b. 1970, former Canadian Football League player (needs profile)
• Henry Woods, 1918-2002, US district judge (needs profile)

Historic Places

• Abbeville Colored School (now known as "Gordon Community & Cultural Center", pending addition to the National Register of Historic Places as of 16 Jan 2021) ^{[2] [3]}

Cemeteries

The count of total memorials per cemetery on this page is based on the total on FindAGrave and may be less than the full count of burials in the actual cemetery.

• Abbeville Cemetery (6/839 memorials on WikiTree, ~0.7% complete)
• Bethlehem Church Cemetery (0/112 memorials on WikiTree, 0% complete)
• Cambridge Cemetery (0/397 memorials complete on WikiTree, 0% complete)
• Cedar Grove Cemetery (0/? memorials complete on WikiTree, 0% complete)
• Flint Hill M. B. Church Cemetery (3/81 memorials on WikiTree, ~3.7% complete)
• Jeffrie Chapel M. B. Church Cemetery (0/2 memorials on WikiTree, 0% complete)
• Midway Cemetery (0/91 memorials on WikiTree, 0% complete)
• Mount Vernon Cemetery (8/87 memorials on WikiTree, ~9.2% complete)
• Old Cambridge Cemetery (0/16 memorials on WikiTree, 0% complete)
• Old Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery (0/6 memorials on WikiTree, 0% complete)
• Ponderosa Cemetery (0/2 memorials on WikiTree, 0% complete)
• Providence United Methodist Cemetery (31/145 memorials on WikiTree, ~21.4% complete)
• Saint Peter Cemetery (0/1 memorials on WikiTree, 0% complete)
• Smith Chapel CME Church Cemetery (18/85 memorials on WikiTree, ~21.2% complete)
• Springfield M. B. Cemetery (27/78 memorials on WikiTree, ~34.6% complete)
• Vaughn Cemetery aka "Owens Cemetery" (0/139 memorials on WikiTree, 0% complete)

Sources

1. ↑ United States Census Bureau. 2023. “Abbeville, Mississippi - Populations and People.” Census.gov. 2023. https://data.census.gov/profile?g=160XX00US2800100#populations-and-people.
2. ↑ “Pending List 2021 01 16 - National Register of Historic Places (U.S. National Park Service).” 2021. Nps.gov. 2021. https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/pending-list-2021-01-16.htm.
3. ↑ Schnugg, Alyssa. 2020. “Old Abbeville School to Be Placed on National Register of Historic Places - HottyToddy.” HottyToddy. November 24, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20220701012953/https://www.hottytoddy.com/2020/11/24/old-abbeville-school-to-be-on-national-register-of-historic-places/.