October 6, 2004

The Violet Cemetery in Osceola (Mississippi County) was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Violet Cemetery contains 634 marked graves and approximately sixty-five unmarked graves. Family names on the markers are a compendium of individuals who developed the area, including Dr. Henry Clay Dunnivant, a local doctor who served in the Confederate army; William J. Driver, a congressman who sponsored legislation in 1939 to control the Mississippi River; and Thomas Craighead, after whom Craighead County was named.

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