Bear Creek Cemetery     Attala County, Mississippi

The Bear Creek Cemetery compilation is a small portion of a large project undertaken by Marymaganos McCool Fenwick and Billye Brown Akin to record and catalogue every cemetery in Attala County.  Mrs. Akin died before the project came to fruition.  With fortitude and determination Marymaganos McCool Fenwick ushered the finished product, "Attala Mississippi Cemeteries"  into print in 1988.  Genealogy researchers interested in Attala County ancestors owe Mrs. Fenwick a debt of gratitude for her countless hours of toil on our behalf. This Web Page listing of the Bear Creek Cemetery is dedicated to the memory of Marymaganos McCool Fenwick and all the people who assisted her in this worthy, selfless project.

Bear Creek Cemetery

Location:  T16N-R9E-S15 Located in the northeastern part of Attala County.  Traveling east on Hwy 12 turn north off Hwy 12 at second left after passing the McCool intersection (Hwy 411).  Follow the secondary road approximately 11/2 miles.  Bear Creek is one of the oldest cemeteries in Attala County.  Many of those buried here lived across the county line in Choctaw County, which is not far away.  Copied by Mrs. E. C. Fenwick and Mrs. Ernest Akins on October 28, 1958.

"Here sleep our forebears without whom we would not have been and without whom there could be no future."

Bear Creek Cemetery Listing

Detailed maps showing the Bear Creek Cemetery in relation to McCool and Weir.

Recent photographs of the Bear Creek Cemetery (2004).

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