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.