Montgomery Memorial Cemetery

The cemetery holds a cross-section of Madison. Betty McArthur, an abstractionist painter, was a founding member of the Mississippi Art Association. Thomas Nicholson Jones, who lived from 1855 to 1920, was the first president of the Bank of Madison. Edward Potts served in the Civil War with the Fifth Missouri Infantry. Second Lieutenant Richard Stewart Averett was killed in action at Guadalcanal in 1943, one of many veterans buried here. The oldest recorded birth date belongs to Mary Cameron, in 1783. Ownership passed to Madison Methodist Church in 1986, and the cemetery is still active.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Natchez Trace Parkway at Ridgeland — 3.5 mi
  The stretch of the Natchez Trace around Ridgeland, where a worn section of the Old Trace, the Ross Barnett Reservoir and the Choctaw town of Chisha Foka share a few miles of parkway.
• Tougaloo College — 5.5 mi
  A historically Black college north of Jackson, founded on a former plantation in 1869, whose students staged Mississippi's first sit-in and whose chapel hosted the movement's leaders.
• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 11 mi
  A modest ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood where Medgar Evers was shot in the driveway in 1963, now a unit of the National Park Service.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 12 mi
  A state museum in downtown Jackson, opened in 2017 beside the Museum of Mississippi History, that tells the movement from 1945 to 1970 through the people who made it.

More markers nearby

• Madison — 0.8 mi
• Rosa Scott School — 1.0 mi
• St. Joseph Catholic School — 1.0 mi
• Montgomery House — 1.1 mi