Sandfield Cemetery
Sandfield Cemetery
Sandfield Cemetery is the late nineteenth century burial site of
several African-American leaders and businessmen which include the
following: Robert Gleed, Mississippi State Senator (1870-1876);
Richard D. Littlejohn, publisher and businessman; W. I. Mitchell,
Educator, first black principal of Union Academy School, and
president of the "Penny-Savings Bank"; Jack Rabb, Businessman, who
also bought his own freedom; Simon Mitchell, Justice of the Peace
during the Reconstruction Era.
On Martin Luther Drive South and College Street