Cemeteries of Dancing Rabbit Creek

Oscar F. Hosea, Buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Lexington, MS

2009-12-03T15:10:00.000-08:00

This Woodmen of the World monument marks the burial place of Oscar F. Hosea in Odd Fellows Cemetery in Lexington, Mississippi. Hosea, born on October 20, 1863, died on October 28, 1921.

Oscar F. Hosea was the son of Oscar Fitzallen Hosea, Sr. and Sarah Anne Farr.

In 1860, according to the U. S. Census recorded that same year, Oscar F. Hosea, Sr. and Sarah A. Hosea lived with their young family in Dark Corner, Beat 2, of Holmes County, Mississippi.

In 1870, the family lived in Lexington, where Oscar F. Hosea, Sr. worked as a carpenter.

Photo by Natalie Maynor

Wordless Wednesday - Grave Monument of William Oliphant McMorrough

2009-11-25T16:41:00.001-08:00

Grave Monument of William Oliphant McMorrough

b. August 27, 1853, d. June 25, 1905

Buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Lexington (Holmes Co) MS

Photo by Natalie Maynor

Conner Family Cemetery, Attala County, MS

2009-11-20T15:40:00.000-08:00

The banner photo that appears on my blog today shows Conner Cemetery located near Hesterville in Attala County, Mississippi. The historical marker pictured to the left tells the story of the establishment of this old cemetery. Yesterday, I published the first in a series of posts about the Conner family, where I will be using personal family information provided by one of my Texas readers who is a descendant of the Conner family. Also, beginning next week, I will be posting photos of Conner family members' grave stones.

Banner photo and photo of marker by Natalie Maynor

Drane Family of French Camp, Mississippi

2009-11-15T15:15:00.000-08:00

The original grave monuments that once marked the grave sites of Colonel James Drane and his wife, Matilda, can be seen at French Camp, Mississippi. The monuments and the Drane family residence were moved to French Camp on the Natchez Trace about 1981 from their original locations nearby.

(Photo provided by unidentified Drane family descendant)

Wordless Wednesday - Hooker Plot in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Lexington, Mississippi

2009-11-11T15:51:00.000-08:00

Photo by Natalie Maynor

Tombstone Tuesday - Seneasha Cemetery, Attala County, MS

2009-11-10T12:41:00.001-08:00

Grave stone of Henry Clay Branch, son of Nettie A. and E. T. Branch. Buried in Seneasha Cemetery, Attala County, Mississippi.

Born Sept. 2, 1886, d. Sept. 29, 1889

Photo by Andy McCrory

Seneasha Cemetery, Attala County, Mississippi

2009-11-09T14:38:00.000-08:00

Branch family members who lived and died in Attala County are buried in several cemeteries, including Good Hope Cemetery in Madison County and Hillcrest Cemetery in Goodman (Holmes County.) But Seneasha Cemetery in rural Attala County seems to have been the burial place for more Branch family members than any other cemetery in the three-county area that includes Attala, Holmes, and Madison Counties.

Entrance to Seneasha Cemetery
Attala County, Mississippi

(Photo by Natalie Maynor)

Recently, one of my blog readers who is also a distant cousin, began taking photos of grave stones in Seneasha Cemetery and uploading them onto the website known as Find-A-Grave.com. Please visit again soon to see some of these new photos and read stories about members of the Branch family.

Attala County, Mississippi
Seneasha United Methodist Church

(Photo by Natalie Maynor)

E. L. and Harriett Mabry, Shiloh Cemetery, Madison County, Mississippi

2009-11-06T19:40:00.000-08:00

Pictured here is the double grave stone that marks the final resting place of E. L. Mabry and his wife, Harriet Mabry, in Shiloh Cemetery in Madison County, Mississippi. As the engraving on the marker shows, E. L. Mabry was born on February 2, 1843, slightly over a year before Harriett was born on March 11, 1844. Harriett died on May 20, 1923, just weeks after her husband died on April 3, 1923.

Photograph by Natalie Maynor

Wordless Wednesday - Nancy Mabry, Suqualena Cemetery, Lauderdale County, MS

2009-11-04T16:16:00.000-08:00

Photograph by Natalie Maynor

Nancy Mabry
b. May 24, 1838
d. Jan 24, 1917
Buried in Suqualena Cemetery
Lauderdale County, Mississippi

Tombstone Tuesday - E. M. Mabry, Suqualena Cemetery, Lauderdale County, Mississippi

2009-11-02T21:44:00.000-08:00

The inscription on this old grave stone in Suqualena Cemetery in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, includes the name "E. M. Mabry" along with the dates of birth and death of the deceased.

Apparently an error was made by the stone mason, since the date of death for E. M. Mabry is shown as February 30th.

February 30th?

What was E. M. Mabry's actual date of death? Perhaps it was February 20th, or maybe February 3rd. But it could not have been February 30th.

Photograph by Natalie Maynor

Wordless Wednesday - John H. Waugh

2009-10-28T14:22:00.000-07:00

Monument of John H. Waugh, Hillcrest Cemetery
Born in Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland in 1829
Died in Goodman, Miss.
January 31, 1896

Source: Digital Photography Collection (2009) - Privately owned by Janice Tracy

Tombstone Tuesday - John M. Terry, Spanish American War Veteran

2009-10-27T16:17:00.001-07:00

This old and weathered grave stone in Harland's Creek Cemetery marks the burial place of John M. Terry, a veteran of the Spanish-American War. According to the inscription on the marker, Mr. Terry served in "CO. A, 5 U.S. VOL., INF, SP. AM. WAR. Although his date of birth is shown on the stone as Mar 31 1871, his date of death is not shown. Harland's Creek Cemetery is located in the Coxburg community of Holmes County, Mississippi.

Photograph by Natalie Maynor

Tombstone Tuesday - A Sunken Gravestone

2009-10-20T17:06:00.000-07:00

Grave stone of Claude Mabry, son of T. G. and M. E. Mabry
Hillcrest Cemetery, Goodman (Holmes County) Mississippi

Wordless Wednesday - Shrock Plot at Shiloh Cemetery, Madison County, Mississippi

2009-10-14T12:17:00.001-07:00

Photo by Natalie Maynor

Tombstone Tuesday - Joseph K. and Caroline Fitler Shrock - Shiloh Cemetery, Madison County, MS

2009-10-13T16:55:00.000-07:00

Joseph Kilpatrick Shrock and his wife Caroline Fitler Shrock are buried in Shiloh Cemetery in Madison County near the community of Cameron, Mississippi. Photographs of their grave stones appear below. More about the families of Joseph K. and Caroline Shrock can be read here.

J. K. Shrock, b. May 6, 1821
d. May 31, 1897, buried in
Shiloh Cemetery, near Cameron
Madison County, MS

Caroline Fitler, wife of J. K. Shrock
d. Oct. 25, 1882, buried in
Shiloh Cemetery near Cameron
Madison County, Mississippi

Source: Photographs by Natalie Maynor

Henry and Sarah Shrock, Camden Cemetery, Camden, Mississippi

2009-10-09T21:53:00.000-07:00

Today, on Mississippi Memories, I began writing the first in a series of posts about the Shrock Family of Attala County, beginning with the family of Joseph K. Shrock and his wife, Caroline Fitler Shrock. Posted here today are photos of the grave stones of Henry Shrock and Sarah Shrock, Joseph's parents.

Sarah Shrock, Joseph Shrock's mother
b. May 6, 1817, d. Sept. 16, 1836
Buried in Camden Cemetery
Madison County, Mississippi

Henry Shrock, Joseph's Father
b. October 9, 1780, d. April 11, 1858
Buried in Camden Cemetery
Camden, Madison County, Mississippi

Shrock Family Plot Marker - Hillcrest Cemetery, Goodman, Mississippi

2009-10-04T20:06:00.000-07:00

This large monument stands in the shadow of a century-old magnolia tree and marks the Shrock family plot in Hillcrest Cemetery. Although deceased members of this family are buried in other cemeteries in Attala and Madison Counties, this cemetery in Goodman in Holmes County appears to have been a more common burial place for family members who died during the 1900's.

During the next several days, I plan to write a series of posts on Mississippi Memories about this well-known Attala County family and its Madison and Holmes County connections. Be sure to check back here on Cemeteries of Dancing Rabbit Creek for photographs of grave stones of some of the Shrock family members.

Source: Digital Photo Collection (2009) - privately held by Janice Tracy

Grave Stone Inscription - United Fire Sides of America

2009-10-03T15:50:00.001-07:00

Recently, while reviewing some of the photos I took last May of grave stones of Killebrew family members buried in Coxburg Cemetery, I found this one. According to its inscription, R. S. Killebrew was born on June 23, 1846, and died on November 11, 1915. His grave is among a number of other graves of Killebrew family members who have been buried in the cemetery for more than a century.

In addition to the usual name and dates of birth and death, the top portion of Mr. Killebrew's grave stone also bears the words "United Fire Sides of America," along with an emblem that resembles a fireplace that contains burning logs.

During a quick search using Google, I found a reference to a Mississippi Supreme Court decision around the turn of the century that involved this entity. Full details of the case were not provided in this reference, but the attorney for the company had a Houston, Texas address.

Was "United Firesides of America" an insurance company, possibly one that provided burial coverage, or was it a dues-paying fraternal organization something similar to Woodmen of the World?

I still don't know, but maybe one of my readers will.

Wordless Wednesday - Mississippi Delta Cemetery

2009-09-30T15:59:00.000-07:00

Cemetery at Anguilla, Mississippi in Sharkey County
Photo by Natalie Maynor

Tombstone Tuesday - Evelyn and Evander Grantham

2009-09-29T17:21:00.000-07:00

The double grave stone pictured here marks the burial place of Evander Grantham and his wife, Evelyn, in Bluff Springs Cemetery in Carroll County, Mississippi. Evander was born in North Carolina in November 1846, one of ten sons of Thomas Grantham, a farmer, and his wife, Lydia Alice Woodberry. The family of Thomas and Lydia, born in North and South Carolina, respectively, also included two daughters, as well as Elizabeth Grantham, Evander's North Carolina-born grandmother. Although Elizabeth Grantham is buried in Bluff Springs Cemetery, Thomas and Lydia Grantham are buried in Old Plank Cemetery near Vaiden, Mississippi.

Photograph by Sally Bennett

Coxburg M. P. Church Cemetery, Holmes County, Mississippi

2009-09-26T16:10:00.001-07:00

Coxburg M. P. Church is located in the Holmes County community of Coxburg. My mother always told me that almost all my ancestors on her side of the family are buried in the cemetery beside this church. And she was so right. The cemetery is filled with the graves of Netherland and Trigleth family members, as well as inter-related families with the names of Hoover, Killebrew, Payne, Thomas, and Wallis. To read more about the Netherland and Trigleth families, visit Mississippi Memories.

A sign on the fence contains contact information for the cemetery. Click on the photo to enlarge it for viewing names and phone numbers of contacts.

A view of Coxburg M. (Methodist) P. (Protestant) Cemetery from outside the fence that surrounds it.

Source: Digital Photo Collection (2009) - privately held by Janice Tracy

Tombstone Tuesday - Confederate Marker and Graves in Hillcrest Cemetery

2009-09-22T11:01:00.001-07:00

Confederate Marker - Hillcrest Cemetery
Goodman (Holmes County) Mississippi

Source: Digital Photo Collection (2009) - Privately Held by Janice Tracy

Confederate Graves - Hillcrest Cemetery
Goodman (Holmes County) Mississippi

Source: Digital Photo Collection (2009) - Privately held by Janice Tracy

Rosa Lee Killebrew, Coxburg Cemetery, Coxburg, MS

2009-09-21T11:01:00.000-07:00

Rosa Lee Killebrew and her brother, Raiford, were born during the marriage of my maternal great-great-grandmother, Susan Elizabeth Coggins Trigleth, to her second husband, Isaac Garrett ("Ike") Killebrew. Interestingly, my maternal grandmother, Rosa Mae Pettus, born to Susan's daughter, Lucy Lula Trigleth, during her first marriage to William Elza Pettus, was named for Lula's half-sister, Rosa Killebrew.

Rosa Lee Killebrew, b. Jan. 8, 1889, d. July 7, 1958

Lucy Lula Trigleth, March 15, 1881 - April 7, 1951

2009-09-19T18:10:00.000-07:00

Lucy Lula Trigleth Payne Pettus Bass was my maternal great-grandmother. Buried in Coxburg Cemetery near many of her relatives and allied family members, the engraving on her grave stone reflects her last marriage to Mr. Bass. For more about Lula Trigleth's family, read here.

Wordless Wednesday - William Bailey Netherland, Red's Co, Mississippi State Troops, C.S.A.

2009-09-09T15:37:00.000-07:00

William Bailey (W.B.) Netherland, My Great-grandfather
Veteran of Red's Co., Miss. State Troops, C.S.A.
Buried in Coxburg Cemetery, Holmes Co., MS

Source: Digital Photo Collection (2009), privately held by Janice Tracy