I enjoy walking through older cemeteries to look at the very old tombstones and enjoy the wonderful photo opportunities. Sometimes the amount of infant deaths that occurred over 100 years ago is overwhelming. The Henry Cemetery was founded in 1879 by the Milton B. Henry family on land sold by the Chickasaws to the U.S. government in 1832. Henry purchased 160 acres in 1856. Robert Henry Young, and infant grandson of M.B. Henry, was the first person buried here. One famous interred is Ezekiel Samuel Candler, Jr, born January 18, 1862 died December 18, 1944, a US Congressman. Elected to represent Mississippi’s 1st District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1901 to 1921. He also served as a Presidential Elector from Mississippi in1888, and Mayor of Corinth, Mississippi, 1933 to 1937. There are currently two plots for sale.
