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Wintergreen Cemetery

cemetery in Port Gibson, Mississippi

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ16903547 ↗
Source-derived summary

Wintergreen Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Port Gibson, Mississippi. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 22, 1979. It is located at East Greenwood Street.

Notable burials

Samuel Reading Bertron (1865–1938), banker

Benjamin G. Humphreys (1808–1882), Civil War general

James G. Spencer (1844–1926), US Representative

Earl Van Dorn (1820–1863), Civil War general

Peter Aaron Van Dorn (1773–1837) lawyer and plantation owner, father of Earl, above.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Wintergreen Cemetery” as cemetery in Port Gibson, Mississippi. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979, 1865, 1938, 1808—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1802. The account is most persuasive where Wintergreen, Cemetery and cemetery can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as cemetery in Port Gibson, Mississippi. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16903547. Authority coordinates are 31.951, -90.979. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1979, 1865, 1938 and 1808.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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This entry incorporates text from “Wintergreen Cemetery” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.