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Tuesday, 11-Sep-2018 03:30:12 MDT
COSBY CEMETERY
Beaudry Circle, Jessieville
Garland County, Arkansas
Beaudry Circle, Jessieville, Arkansas, Submitted March 11, 2004; updated
May 23, 2005, by Carlotta Ragsdale and Brenda Johnson
Directions to cemetery:
Turn right off of Highway 7 North at Jessieville School on Beaudry Circle
stay straight 5.5 miles.
Cemetery will be on the left on Beaudry.
We wish to thank Carlotta Ragsdale for allowing us to use her cemetery
transcriptions on the MPGS website.
The Ragsdale site may
here
The Melting Pot Genealogical Society has archived most of The Sentinel-Record obituaries for 1998 through 2016, as well as some from other years. You may check our obituary section to see if they are listed. If not, please check back as we may be adding more.
(Melting Pot Genealogical Society is not responsible for any errors; however, if you should find any, please e-mail and we will include your correction.)
Roy Ermie Cosby Jr. b. March 20, 1955 d. July 28, 1955
son of Roy Cosby and Tessie Ragsdale
Teressa Rose Cosby b. July 3 1952 d. Oct. 1 1958
daughter of Roy Cosby and Tessie Ragsdale
Bobby Gene Cosby b. May 22, 1948 d. June 1, 1959
son of Roy Cosby and Tessie Ragsdale
Roy Ermie Cosby b. April 19, 1911 d. April 5, 2003
son of Jim Cosby and Jo Johnson
father of Edith, Etta
Faye, Linda Sue, Jerry, Shirley, Bobby, Jimmy,
Joretta,
Teressa, Mary, Roy, David, and Sheila
double marker
w/
Tessie Mae (Ragsdale) Cosby b. Nov. 11, 1918 d. Dec. 6,
2003
daughter of Andrew Ragsdale and Rena Baldwin
mother of Edith, Etta Faye, Linda Sue, Jerry, Shirley, Bobby, Jimmy,
Joretta, Teressa, Mary, Roy, David, and Sheila
married
Nov. 11, 1933
Unmarked
Unmarked
A. T. Beardsley b. Jan 26, 1837 d. Jan. 20, 1911
Hugh Cash b. July 18, 1829 d. Jan. 29, 1916
double marker w/,
Sena Cash b. July 22, 1826 d. March 17,
1910
Hugh Morris b. Nov. 22, 1910 d. June 17, 1912
son of C. L. and Rhonda Oates
Myrtle Jane Weber b. June 26, 1909 d. Sept. 21, 1996
James A. Johnson b. 1930 d. 1961
Herbert Lee Johnson b. April 10, 1911 d. April 30, 1978
Unmarked
Betty S. Hamilton b. 1933 d. 2002
Raymond Hamilton Open
Bill H. Thomaston b. July 8, 1938 d. July 1, 1991
Wanda Shumaker b. 1931 d. 1989
Roy Shumaker b. 1927 d. 1994
US NAVY
Stacey L. Ragsdale b. June 8, 1971 d. March 12, 1972
Marked but unreadable
Unmarked
Joseph Crawford Cozby no dates
Co. H 4ALA
CAV CSA
Coleman Cosby b. March 7, 1886 d. July 29, 1909
W. A. Cosby b. Jan. 1, 1883 d. Jan. 27, 1935
Clarence W. Johnson b. 1916 d. 1961
Unmarked
Unmarked
Al Unreadable
William Green Johnson b.1850 d.1921
married
Martha Cosby
son of William Johnson and Sarah Jane
Green
Martha Cozby Johnson b. abt. 1865 d. no date
married William Green Johnson
married: Dec. 16, 1883
Robert E. Johnson b. Dec. 24, 1888 d. Sept. 24, 1935
Thomas E. Johnson b. 1885 d. 1944
Pete Genero b. Nov. 22, 1988 d. Dec. 2, 1972
husband of Opal Virginia Johnson
Barbara Ann Genero b. Jan. 28, 1941 d. Jan. 16, 1954
daughter of Pete Genero and Opal Johnson
Nancy Jane (Dickson) Johnson Jones b. Sept. 2, 1895 d. July 20,
1981
mother of Linnie, and Opal
Opal Virginia (Johnson) Genero b. Jan. 14 1921 d. Feb. 11 1989
daughter of Nancy Jane Dickson Johnson Jones
sister
of Linnie Johnson Ragsdale
John Freeman Ragsdale b. Jan. 3, 1927 d. May 16, 1991
son of Wiley Edgar Ragsdale and Ollie Cosby
husband
of Mary E. Ragsdale
double marker w/
Mary E. Ragsdale Open
wife of John Freeman
Ragsdale
Geneva Dorthia Cosby b. 1919 d. 1944
Ollie Dimple Cosby b. 1906 d. 1941
first
wife of Wiley Edgar Ragsdale
mother of John Freeman
Ragsdale
mother of Rickie Ragsdale
Wilbert Lee Cosby b. 1910 d. 1932
James Enoch Cosby b. Dec. 9, 1871 d. 1944
son of Dee Cosby and Mary Louisa Arkansas Merriott
Minnie Cosby b. 1883 d. 1942
Mary Louisa Arkansas Newkirk b. Sept. 12, 1853 Age 96
daughter of James Wesley Merriott and Susan Geurin
married first Dee Cosby
mother of James Enoch Cosby
married second Hiram Newkirk
back of stone reads
Placed by sister Lorena Frier
Richard Cozby d. July 10, 1942 Age 0
James O. Cozby b. 1947
Clifford Cozby Jr. b. Nov. 17,18, 1949 d. Nov. 19, 1949 Age 1 day
Walker Lee Cozby b. Nov. 27, 1952 d. Nov.19, 1973
Back of stone reads
Brickmasons Local # 11 U.S.
ARMY Reserves Co. A 489 ENG BTN
Clifton Cozby Sr. b. Dec. 8, 1915 d. May 18, 1986
40 years of love
TEC 5 US ARMY WORLD WAR II
Lillian W. Cozby b. May 20, 1928 d. Oct. 9, 2013
[added by pvh from obituary]
Herman Willis Cosby b. 1917 d. 1961
John Cosby b. 1902 d. 1957
William Emery Cosby b. Sept. 7, 1913 d. July 4, 1993
Lorena Frier b. July 9, 1903 d. July 30, 1989
wife of Donald Frier
sister of Mary A. Newkirk
Donald P. Frier b. Oct. 2, 1911 d. Dec. 15, 1961
Tec 4 9201 Tech SVC Unit World War 11
husband of Lorena
Frier
Cora E. Fleener b. May 24, 1900 d. Oct. 1, 1950
George Leatherbury b. Dec. 9, 1929 d. July 30, 1985
A Friend of the Cosbys
There are 59 graves in the Cosby Cemetery
Cosby, Jimmy Dean 10/04/1949-11/20/2014; son of Roy and Tessie Cosby [from obituary--pvh] 1
Cosby, Lance Alan 06/25/1976-01/31/2008; son of Jimmy and Linda Cosby [from obituary--pvh]
Johnson, Tommy 03/11/1967-06/13/2012; son of James Johnson and Betty Thomaston [from obituary--pvh]
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