Old Mormon Cemetery
“The Old Mormon Chapel”
First Latter-Day Saint Building erected in Northeast Mississippi.
Dedicated December 3rd, 1936 by Apostle Reed Smoot, accompanied by Elder LeGrand Richards – Southern States Mission President. First Booneville Branch Convert, John Ashcraft – Baptized April 18, 1896.
Branch Leaders:
- Bruce Stephenson, B.P.
- W. Ophas Floyd, B.P.
- Rocky Lee Floyd, A.B.P.
- Hyrum Winterton, A.B.P.
- Luther F. McKissack, B.P.
- Oscar Weatherbee, B.P.
- J.C. Morris, B.P.
- Luther F. McKissack, B.P.
Services moved to new building on George E. Allen Drive, Boonville, MS. in the fall of 1968.
