Candlelight Cemetery Tour
A candle light and lantern tour of the historic cemetery of the Bethany Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church and the Confederate mass grave will be held on Saturday evening, June 7 beginning at 7:30 p.m.
An hour-long tour thru this hallowed ground will beginning at 7:30 p.m. Groups of six or eight will be escorted on a guided and lighted tour of the cemetery and hear about the personalities who laid to rest at ten different markers. Tours will end at 9:30 p.m.
The cemetery is located five miles west of Baldwyn on Highway 370 west at the intersection of Highway 370 and CR 833.
Visitors will learn to look beyond the stones and into the stories of the men and women who molded the church and the communities as well as soldiers who died to preserve a way of life.
Hear these founding fathers and brave soldiers tell their own stories via local costumed figures will enchant and entertain as they bring the past to life. Each stop re-creates the lives of the noted local personalities interred at the historic cemetery.
Ten intriguing tales will be presented at tombstones throughout the 155-year old church cemetery and the 144-year old Confederate mass grave.
The lives of Rev. Samuel Agnew, John Nelson, Todd and John Young, Jane Bryson and others willl offer a fascinating look at the history of the region.
Costs for the hour-long tour is $5 for adults and $3 for children. Proceeds will go toward the preservation of the cemetery and the adjacent Brice’s Crossroads Battlefield.
Guided tours will depart from the pull off and parking spaces adjacent to Highway 370.
The cemetery tour will culminate a day of Living History demonstrations and camps at the battlefield that will begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday.
These events celebrate the 144th anniversary of the Battle of Brice’s Crossroads fought June 10, 1864.