Supes decide on final site for Confederate statue
In an unanimous vote, Lowndes County supervisors selected Monday a piece of land adjacent to Confederate soldiers’ graves at Friendship Cemetery as the new location for the Confederate monument outside the county courthouse.
Supes consider final location of Confederate statue
Lowndes County supervisors are weighing their options on how and where to relocate the Confederate monument — which now stands in front of the county courthouse — as research into the methods and cost of the relocation is underway.
City proposes alternate site for Confederate monument
Columbus City Council will offer Lowndes County supervisors an option between two parcels of land at Friendship Cemetery on which to move the Confederate monument outside the courthouse, after city officials became concerned the first parcel chosen would be too difficult for the monument’s movers to access.
Moving monuments like ‘taking apart and reassembling a jigsaw puzzle’
On Monday, the Lowndes County Board of Supervisors voted to relocate the Confederate monument, which has resided on the southwest corner of the courthouse property since it was erected there in 1912.
Columbus donates cemetery parcel to county for monument move
In a unanimous vote, Columbus City Council yielded a piece of land at Friendship Cemetery Tuesday night to Lowndes County for the relocation of the Confederate monument outside the county courthouse.
Lowndes supes vote to move Confederate monument to Friendship Cemetery
The Confederate Monument that has sat outside Lowndes County Courthouse for more than a century is moving to Friendship Cemetery.
City to pay higher price for cemetery maintenance
Columbus city councilmen voted 5-1 to pay almost $1,000 more per visit for maintenance at Friendship Cemetery despite continuing concerns about the city’s spending — an additional cost that could add between $31,500 to $36,000 per year to the service.
MSMS juniors prepare 29th ‘Tales from the Crypt’ event
When Auriel Quiroz researched Cornelius Hardy, it was the lack of information on his second wife that fueled her theatrical performance idea for “Tales from the Crypt.”
Looking for soldiers: Historians, archaeologists survey Confederate section of Friendship Cemetery for unmarked Union graves
Gary Lancaster leaned over the computer set out in Friendship Cemetery among clusters of land surveying equipment Friday afternoon.
On the screen in front of him was a rough underground map of the grave sites of about 1,000 soldiers who died in Columbus after the Battle of Shiloh in 1862 — soldiers whose lives and deaths he’s been researching for years.
Recovering the past: Archaeological project hopes to confirm Union soldiers’ graves in Friendship Cemetery
On Memorial Day in 1866, barely a year after the end of the Civil War, a group of Columbus women decorated the Friendship Cemetery graves of Confederate soldiers — along with the graves of several unknown Union soldiers.
Tales from the Crypt: Spirits from the past return for a visit during Columbus Spring Pilgrimage
Wind swirls through Friendship Cemetery on a cool March afternoon, carrying with it fragments of the past.
History hunt: A long search into the past brings a headstone to an ‘unknown’ soldier
On a heat-smitten day 154 years after he died, Hugh Washington Ivy at last received a headstone.
Database organizes plots, people in Friendship Cemetery
For anyone who needs to find a grave in Friendship Cemetery, Mike Anderson — and his newly organized online database of Friendship Cemetery grave sites — can help them find it.
Friendship Cemetery featured on ‘Mississippi Roads’
When Mississippi Public Television’s “Mississippi Roads” chose a theme of historic cemeteries for its weekly travel series, a visit to Columbus was an obvious choice.
Friendship Cemetery comes to life
“The cemetery’s a lively place, isn’t it?”
That’s the question high school student West Givens will ask visitors at Friendship Cemetery during Pilgrimage this year, and he’d be correct.
Historic Friendship Cemetery is still open for business
One hundred and seventy-two years and one day ago, Friendship Presbyterian Church opened its doors in Columbus. They began burying their dead there, too.
Tales From The Crypt alive and well
For the 24th time the lives of nearly-forgotten people buried in Friendship Cemetery have come alive through evening tales told by local high school students standing among tombstones.
Ghosts of Columbus: With Halloween upon us, a look at area hauntings
Among the unknown Confederate soldiers buried beneath Magnolia trees in Friendship Cemetery last week, Matt Garner took a picture at sunrise.
It was dark when he arrived. A page designer for The Dispatch, Garner often visits the cemetery in his off time to take photographs.
Keeping up appearances: City to seek bids for cemetery upkeep
The contract to maintain one of Columbus’ most enduring landmarks will soon be up for bid.
‘Tales from the Crypt’ brings legends to life
Juniors at Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science have spent the entire school year exploring the historical context of issues like race, class, gender and religion as they relate to some of the city’s most notorious residents.
Tonight at 7 p.m., they will present the culmination of that knowledge in the 23rd annual “Tales from the Crypt” at Friendship Cemetery.