A Woman Danced on a Union Soldier’s Grave

In Sunset Cemetery there are two graves marked only with the words “Union Soldier,” with no names given. These markers were placed years later by the federal government, and the soldiers were believed to have been part of the Federal troops sent to the area after the war in 1865 or during the Ku Klux Klan period. One of the men was remembered locally as the soldier who had offered a grave insult to Sallie Homesley, a small but fiery Southern woman who lived near what later became the vacant lot below the Dixie Home Store. When that soldier died, Sallie went to the cemetery and danced on his grave.

Source: Mamie Jones