Rose Hill Cemetery Costumed Tours
Anne McKee - Tour Director
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DISCLAIMER
Rose Hill Historic Cemetery Costumed Tour is NOT a haunted tour, not tales of the crypt, or spirits (that I know about:) We have always been a historic tour telling the documented, highly exciting and interesting stories of the people buried there. Our brand has always been, will always be teaching history and heritage through the arts of storytelling and drama. We highly respect those buried in Rose Hill Cemetery. All of our stories we tell are documented through Lauderdale County Archives (thanks Leslie Joyner and Ward Calhoun). We are a vital participant of Mississippi's Creative Economy Project.
Rose Hill Historic Cemetery Costumed Tour is NOT a haunted tour, not tales of the crypt, or spirits (that I know about:) We have always been a historic tour telling the documented, highly exciting and interesting stories of the people buried there. Our brand has always been, will always be teaching history and heritage through the arts of storytelling and drama. We highly respect those buried in Rose Hill Cemetery. All of our stories we tell are documented through Lauderdale County Archives (thanks Leslie Joyner and Ward Calhoun). We are a vital participant of Mississippi's Creative Economy Project.
Rose Hill Cemetery Tour 2025
Rose Hill Tour -- The people are lined up and anxiously waiting to get through the gate! - Photo by Billy Bradford.
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The 2011 Tour - Photo by Margaret Remy.
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A few of the ladies that tell the fantastic stories of Meridian's History at the Rose Hill Tour.
Standing left to right: Barbara Wells as Mrs. Shackelford, Anne McKee telling about the Yellow Fever Epidemic if 1878. Seated Brenda Stewart as Nebraska Carter Read, wife to Lt. Charles "Savez" Read, and the only woman interred in the Confederate Mound.
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During the 2010 Tour, Anne McKee portrayed Mattie Wedgeworth, a Mississippi lady whose heart was captured by a Yankee Soldier from Indiana, Charles Rubush. Mr. Rubush was portrayed by Anne's Husband Doyle McKee.
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Celebrating Gypsy Queen Kelly Mitchell's 100th Anniversary Death & Burial
Two of the young men from Stage 2 portraying soldiers at the Rose Hill Tour 2014, and Anne McKee.
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In 2011 Students from West Lauderdale Middle School told the story of World War 1 Sailor Montague Delauncey, who was lost at sea when his ship sank.
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Michelle Joyner as the Gypsy Queen Kelly Mitchell.
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