Please accept my apologies for the lack of recent posts. Now that tax season is officially over, I am hopeful that I can return to regular postings to this blog. See you in a few days.
Ms. Mills; I am a descendant of Miles and Bettie Bryant Crocker of Paris, Lafayette Co MS.. I am also a Graveyard Rabbit. I am so familar with the graveyards you described in this blog. I was the webmaster of USGEnWeb MS Lafayette County web page for several years and did much research of the cemeteries for out of county and state researchers. I must say that your blog site is a welcomed weell inform site for the genenalogist and family history researcher. I am also wondering if your hushand was related to Robert and Ginny aka Eugenia Gandy Mills? She was my Grandmother Crocker's sister. I have many pictures if you would like to hear more. Also, I am a volunteer for Find a grave .com Well Done.
Thank you for your kind comments. I am apologetic for not having posted anything to this blog since this past spring. It is all I can do to keep up with my blog Itawamba Connections, plus maintain a household and work too. My husband and I are from Itawamba County, and I have done much research on the Mills family and am intrigued with the Millses who came to Lafayette County. I'd like to hear more about yours Mills information. My e-mail is mmills@ms.metrocast.net.
Welcome to Graveyard Rabbit of Yoknapatawpha County. As the name might suggest, this blog is dedicated to the many graveyards found in William Faulkner's real-life equivalent of his fictional Yoknapatawpha County. That would be Lafayette County, Mississippi.
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About Yoknapatawpha County
The map at the top of this page is from Faulkner's 1936 novel, Absalom, Absalom! which is set in fictional Yoknapatawpha County. It is believed that Faulkner's inspiration for the name of Yoknapatawpha County came from the Yocona River, a corruption of the name Yoknapatawpha County. Indeed, Yoknapatawpha River forms the southern boundary of fictional Yoknapatawpha County while Yocona River is the southern boundary of Lafayette County. Early maps of Lafayette County included a river called Yockney-Patafa. Apparently, Yoknapatawpha comes from two Chickasaw words "yocona" and "petopha" which mean "split land."
About Graveyard Rabbits
The Association Of Graveyard Rabbits was founded by Terry Thornton, a native Mississippian and retired university professor. Its name comes from Frank Lebby Stanton's poem, The Graveyard Rabbit, which refers to Stanton's belief that rabbits who inhabit graveyards have a charmingly intimate knowledge of those graveyards and a loving association with the dead. According to the association's website, these traits are the motivation of the human beings interested in this group.
Ms. Mills;
ReplyDeleteI am a descendant of Miles and Bettie Bryant Crocker of Paris, Lafayette Co MS.. I am also a Graveyard Rabbit.
I am so familar with the graveyards you described in this blog. I was the webmaster of USGEnWeb MS Lafayette County web page for several years and did much research of the cemeteries for out of county and state researchers.
I must say that your blog site is a welcomed weell inform site for the genenalogist and family history researcher.
I am also wondering if your hushand was related to Robert and Ginny aka Eugenia Gandy Mills? She was my Grandmother Crocker's sister.
I have many pictures if you would like to hear more. Also, I am a volunteer for Find a grave .com
Well Done.
Thank you for your kind comments. I am apologetic for not having posted anything to this blog since this past spring. It is all I can do to keep up with my blog Itawamba Connections, plus maintain a household and work too. My husband and I are from Itawamba County, and I have done much research on the Mills family and am intrigued with the Millses who came to Lafayette County. I'd like to hear more about yours Mills information. My e-mail is mmills@ms.metrocast.net.
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