Because Marconnot had no wife or children to object, his wishes were carried out, and a granite mausoleum was built for him in Mount Olive Cemetery in Carondelet. Alas, years later the Archdiocese ...

"There was no cemetery on this side of town for black people," Hattiesburg native Vermell Jackson said. Five acres for Mount Olive Cemetery in the Bonhomie community were purchased, and the three ...

MOUNT OLIVE, Miss. (WDAM) -Trent Lewis and his crew used everything from high-powered equipment to good old-fashioned elbow grease to help bring some life to a cemetery in Mount Olive.

JACKSON — As a boy growing up in west Jackson, Larry Thurman said he used to go down to Mt. Olive Cemetery on John R. Lynch Street to play around the statue of James (Jim) Hill, a former slave ...

"Restless Ground: The Untold Story of Mount Olive" delves into the history of the cemetery while exploring the complex story of Black burial grounds in Wilmington. New Castle County produced the film.