Sandfield Cemetery

Once a year the graves here are spoken for. At the Eighth of May Emancipation Celebration, students from the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science portray people buried in Sandfield, among them Robert Gleed and his family and the Rev. Jesse Boulden. Gleed was born enslaved and died in Texas in 1916; he is buried here with his wife Susan. Boulden, a Baptist minister born in Delaware in 1820, served one term in the Mississippi House in 1870 and 1871 and resigned in 1875.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tennessee Williams Welcome Center — 1.6 mi
  The 1875 Episcopal rectory where Tennessee Williams was born in 1911, moved to Main Street in the 1990s and now Columbus's welcome center and a National Literary Landmark.
• Waverley Mansion — 7.7 mi
  A National Historic Landmark mansion above the Tombigbee River, home of a plantation family that enslaved more than a hundred people, left empty for half a century before a family restored it.
• Howlin' Wolf Memorial and Blues Trail Marker — 16 mi
  A Mississippi Blues Trail marker and granite memorial on East Broad Street honoring Chester Burnett, who was born nearby in 1910 and became the Chicago blues giant Howlin' Wolf.
• Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge — 27 mi
  A 48,000-acre refuge of bottomland forest and lakes in Noxubee, Oktibbeha and Winston counties, rebuilt from worn-out farmland, with red-cockaded woodpeckers, alligators and winter eagles.

More markers nearby

• R.E. Hunt High School — 0.8 mi
• MUW Founders — 0.9 mi
• MUW Desegregation — 0.9 mi
• Queen City Hotel (Blues Trail) — 1.0 mi