Mississippi City cemetery Mississippi City cemetery is located at 232, 321⁄2 Street (30°23′23″N 89°03′09″W) in Gulfport.[16] As of 2016, there were about 880 graves in the cemetery, with the earliest burials dating from the 1840s. Notable interments include Blind Roosevelt Graves (1909–1962)] and Confederate veterans from the American Civil War.[19] In August 2016, the cemetery was being considered for a scene in a made-for-TV movie – A Deadly Affair.
In 1841, the Mississippi Legislature deliberated over prospective sites for a state university. Numerous Mississippi towns were considered, but in the final ballots, only Mississippi City and Oxford remained in contention. On January 21, 1841, the lawmakers selected Oxford over Mississippi City by a vote of 58 to 57 as the location for the University of Mississippi.