District 3 Supervisor Wayne Self's duty as a county official has run right up to his front yard.
An overgrown patch of land near Self's Lakeside Road property in Itta Bena has turned out to be just what he feared - a graveyard once tended by the county.
The discovery was made recently when some women from Jackson came to his door complaining about the sunken state of the small cemetery, where their relatives are buried.
"I've always heard it might be a graveyard, but I was always hoping it wasn't," Self said.
"It's an old gravesite the county was responsible for, for a number of years, and they just let it alone."
Now, the Board of Supervisors must determine whether the site is on public or private property.
"It appears to me some title search and research needs to be done," said the board's attorney, Willie Perkins, whom the board assigned to investigate the ownership.
