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CHAPEL OF THE CROSS CEMETERY,

MADISON

674 Mannsdale Road Madison, MS

THE GHOST OF A WOMAN whose fiancé died before they could be wed is

said to appear weeping at his grave in the cemetery.

This small Gothic revival chapel in rural Madison County appears to have

been taken right out of the English countryside. There is some speculation on the
designer but history tells us the actual labor on the church was performed mostly

by slaves. Conceived originally as the plantation chapel for the Johnstone

family’s Annandale Plantation, Margaret Johnstone continued construction
after the death of her husband and willed the church to the local Episcopal