The project that got nicknamed “The Book” is  719 pages containing nearly 50,000 names of those interred in the more than 250 cemeteries inside Jackson County.

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The genesis of the book came from three earlier volumes published by the Genealogical Society in the 1960s and 1970s called Requiem I, II and III. Over the years, local historians and researchers added cemeteries and updated existing ones.

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