Visitors to Greenwood Cemetery often discover the graves of governors, senators, military officers, and other notable figures from Mississippi's past. Yet few pairs of Greenwood residents shared as many remarkable experiences as George Poindexter and Abram Scott.

Long before either man occupied the governor's office, they belonged to the generation that guided Mississippi from frontier territory to statehood. Both served during the War of 1812 era. Both represented Wilkinson County at Mississippi's Constitutional Convention of 1817. Both signed Mississippi's first constitution. Both later became governor of the young state they helped create. Today, more than two centuries after Mississippi entered the Union, both rest in Greenwood Cemetery.