Old Thigpen Cemetery
Picayune, MS
Pvt. George Watts
7th Miss Inf Batt, Co G
Pvt. Jesse L. Herrin
27th Miss Inf, Co B
"The top of the hill ahead was crowded with winged angels and life-sized effigies of
bygone citizens in old-fashioned dress, standing, as if by count, among the columns
and shafts and conifers, like a familiar set of passengers collected on the deck of
a
ship on which they all knew each other---bona-fide members of a small local
excursion, embarked on a voyage that is always returning in dreams."
-- Eudora Welty, "The Optimist's Daughter"
Nathan Thigpen
6/4/1841-5/10/1912
Lourinda D. Thigpen, w/o N. Thigpen
5/12/1842-12/6/1890
Forest G. Thigpen
5/14/1903-12/17/1905
Ed Smith, 1834 - 1912