The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1943-11-05
Hidden Among Beautiful Gardens
Lies Burial Plot OF Grant Family
D. sasa Taniansoa

Travellers along Gnfun BUS
Drive ard the lea ffrQ nd
Grant avtnne Wuasa newer M
eee. unless taey ba W
themselves fh8f somewhere a.
tNeen fhe fWo tharag e
an anefeni celnetFB aBt.h& frum
an,eWllum DAYS II thf hf
ng place al tive afauf family
and aecess 10 i can ogY b. n
- Through the graaa = ua
Oliver Cole premises ~ 0fsns
fvenu
In going 70 It aEn
beautiful gardens wafe n
81 axaleas ard 6ap It tha
xegy atmosphere w5fh cale m
sheir @ason. e whaft tae MORE
humble flowers as sweetness
ard beauty 81 aiheT uifse II the
year
Ard while among sts SsnlMs
uf the grove that hak grown ~
ii the old cemctefg rises ~
ehmpsed totaefsnR head
and graves II many S rotsfs4es
heap the family plat b andesa
Gods Acre Mrs J Oliver
Cose remarked IS she urll&ke
ths beautiful cid gate ilsfasga
Mn8th admiftanrt Ia it q Rains
Eof il neessphs ~ aefs 81 aaf
ard IS enclosed b d nateiy sefsee
81 wcxa constructed al hsavy
innlam Mhich uphola beautiful
IS pfnpHfionexl r~aloTsetfes daituE
sragn the time when LaasBtef Ha
kaskg IL Mississippi ard mil Wh
Nas easy e. obtain.
In the center 81 uls ploi staisa
. marble shaft 81 afseefui pro-
portions whteh. agcnrdlng Il Ms
Cole. hsd bern efeessu b llse
memory u Ill who seep there
Bat the eye turns from tha ~
tne more imposing monument
which Affs Cole SAYS Is . repsica
~ Une that stands ii Mobile -
4 memorial 70 Captain john
Grant who was-as the epitaph
read originates ard cotatsiGc
lug of Grants Pass usai inside
passage from Mobile Il New 81
beams uhleh Sc greatly facilitated
tEavel between iie fae cities ~
shortening the route anu ~ Be-
sNninR danger IS i sins2 Hasen
flying sails sped tie greal zhlp
across TIE Gulf q Aie1ieo.
Towering above Tee aash feaee
IRE monument 4 tHe3 hx a
araped urn against wAleA fepa
e. an aszcnof. mute W3sa e.
fhe fact ihat 0au9hsg Captain
Grant piled has eallgug o. tat
hiEn seas
Ne1x MS grave lies thai - mas
ulfe. Ellxahaih ard nag Hf saay
a1e those of ethsr nsenae4s S
kamsHs VIM we're brought
for their Aast cong V
On me ouissde 81 The ple1 not
Mr from the eate IS loand tse
crave Of Nancy Pickett Bfanssr
born IL 1913 afid diea ii 1aas
And there ai4o rests Philip Hen
~ Gffof. born february 1915 ia
Trieste. ltais. and Naa atea sn.
1856 Their nanes might have
been written III Natef m 81 a.
sheir memory concerned fof
Airs Cole could remember iitts
abaui them
And further back he fire graves
d those who we're slase u m
Grant family. One tne
eardng to Mr. Cole. Nim later
further extended hospitality ~
TIE writer bx driving hef back
e. the city Is RAISED e ihr mem
ofx u sophie who dtea he 1854
almost At lie daNn q the War
Between the State
AL around the plot lies gseand
that haz beer haFsde down
through the Grant Iamiis tor
many generation SaH nt IS kH84
belong Il uhaa e fhe na
SMILE other parts though Sill
oanea y the Grant ean are 81
ether NAMES such No Set
Mr Coles mother Wa q Grant
II IS 3 quiet nllce "a Wilea 81
sest surrounded b. Hhe iHis
elan and shaded hs venerable
eaks where me1klna bIrais 1a4d
singing contests fearless ol Tar
halicklug kittens that up q
them through the haG8-opeued
gate Or ssuea l8cir flight FROM
ire vantage point II ihe Haii
fence