Old Brandon Cemetery

The cemetery's best story belongs to a woman who taught herself law. Susie Blue Buchanan, born in 1882, worked as a teacher and then as a secretary in her father's law office in Brandon, reading law there; when he died his partner carried her training on. In 1916 she became the first woman admitted to practice in Mississippi, sworn in before the state Supreme Court, and in 1918 the first registered with the state bar association. From 1924 she was deputy chancery clerk of Rankin County. She died in 1938 and is buried here.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 11 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.
• Old Capitol Museum — 11 mi
  Mississippi's Greek Revival statehouse of 1839, where the legislature voted to secede, Hiram Revels was elected to the U.S. Senate and the 1890 constitution was written, now a free state museum.
• Farish Street Historic District — 12 mi
  Jackson's Black business and cultural center, where Medgar Evers kept the NAACP office and furniture-store owners recorded the blues, now a quiet National Register district.
• Natchez Trace Parkway at Ridgeland — 13 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.

More markers nearby

• Town Square — 0.3 mi
• Rankin County Courthouses — 0.3 mi
• Seminary Square — 0.4 mi
• Drakes United Methodist Church — 7.0 mi