Pleasant Rest Cemetery

Pleasant Rest Cemetery, Gulf County, FL

Surveyed by: Wayne N Carpenter

Typed by: James L. Edenfield

Date Surveyed: Sep 2001


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DIRECTIONS: Leave Wewahitchka, FL on hwy C386 south and go 9.7 miles to Pleasant Rest Rd. From Mexico Beach, FL go 10 miles on hwy C386 to Pleasant Rest Rest Rd. Turn onto Pleasant Rest Rd. and 1.9 miles. Turn left onto a paved road and go .4 mile to the cemetery.


THESE GRAVES ARE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE DRIVEWAY GOING THROUGH THE CEMETERY

Maggie SPIVEY
11 Feb 1881
15 Oct 1957

Kirk HART
31 Dec 1882
11 Jun 1956

              HART
Parker G.               Annie G.
1905 - 1986             1906 - 1981

Richard E. PRANGE
7 Jul 1939
23 Mar 2000
CS2 US Coast Guard
Vietnam

Infant GRIFFIN
16 Aug 1970
16 Aug 1970

              THOMPSON
Dewitt C. (Dee)         Margaret HILL
27 Apr 1907             11 Nov 1910
22 Jan 1983             12 Mar 1989
A man loved             A woman loved

              APLIN
Deomes O.               Nadine H.
15 Jun 1931             6 Oct 1924
                        22 Mar 2001

Jim ROBERTS
1895 - 1978
Pvt US Army WW I

Axie RHAMES ROBERTS
28 Apr 1900
22 Nov 1986
A loving Aunt

Ed FLOORE
28 Jun 1955
27 Nov 1981
We love you

Preston E. FARMER
3 Sep 1912
11 Sep 1989
PFC US Army WW II

              NEWSOME
Thomas A.               Katherine L.
28 Sep 1929             18 May 1931
                        3 Nov 1982
TSgt US Air Force
Retired
           Children
            James A.
            Paul G.
            Donald J.

UNKNOWN Infant
(In NEWSOME plot)

              NEWSOME
Willie                  Minnie Lee
13 Nov 1905             17 Dec 1902
9 Sep 1985              19 Dec 1986

James H. NEWSOME
22 Jun 1946
3 Jan 1959

Our Precious son and brother
Robert Christopher RAFFIELD
10 Jun 1976
30 Aug 2000
Forever in our hearts
Robert        Linda
Shelley       Phillip

              DAVIS
Earl R.                 Mary E.
25 Jan 1912             16 Mar 1920
24 Feb 1981
PFC US Army WW II

2 UNKNOWNS

Dave COPPER
(no dates)

Donald O. RUGER
24 Jan 1928
27 Dec 1991
MSgt US Army 
Vietnam

George E. TOOLE
4 Dec 1924
17 Mar 1993
CM3 US Navy WW II
Loving you

Fred W. RITTER
9 Aug 1916
24 Mar 1995
In loving memory

In loving memory of
Marlin Phillip SANDER
6 Mar 1992

Marland Eckley POWLUS
"Capt Eck"
1909 - 1980

              CARR
          m. 27 Dec 1963
James E.                (no information)
16 Oct 1938
21 Jan 1996

              RHAMES
          m. 2 Apr 1962
Ernest C., Jr.            Mary Frances
22 Apr 1941               23 Jan 1947
18 May 1999
"Hear me my chiefs!       Loving spirits are spirits
I am tired, my heart      mingle in love like the 
is sick and sad. From     clear and swirling waters of
where the sun stands      the mountains stream
I will fight nore more    Red Bear
forever."
Chief Joseph Nez Perce

              Children
Olie               Angie               Renae
Jerry              Gary                Dale

Where are the buffalo gone the great chief in Washingotn sends word that
he wishes to buy our land. How can you buy or sell the sky - The warmth
of the land, the idea is strange to us - yet we do not own the freshness
of the air or the spankle of the water. How can you buy them from us.
Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. We know that white man
does not understand our ways. One portion of the land is the same to him
as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from
the land, whatever he needs.  The earth is not his brother but his enemy
and he has conquered it he moves on. He leaves his fathers graves and his
children birthright is forgotten.

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the 
leaves of spring or the rustle of insect wings, but perhaps because I am
a savage and do not understand.  The clatter only seems to insult the 
ears and what is there to life if a man cannot hear the lovely cry of the
whippoorwill or the arguments of the frog around the pond at night.

The whites too shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes.  Continue
to contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.
When the buffalo are all slaughtered, the wild horses are tamed.  The secret
corners of the forest heavy with the scent of many new, and the view of the
ripe hills blotted by talking wires.  Where is the eagle-gone- where is the
buffalo - gone - and what is it to say goodbye to the swift and the hunt, the
end of living and the beginning of survial

     Chief Seattle to President Franklin Pierce, 1855.



2 UNKNOWNS

Our Son
John Brian RHAMES
9 Oct 1979
18 Feb 1981

Annie M. DANIELS
4 Mar 1904
20 Jan 1977

Lee DANIELS
27 Feb 1917
7 Jul 1965
Florida
Cpl Hq Btry 32 FA BRIG
WW II

Chrisannie RHAMES
20 Aug 1950
(Infant)

Ernest C. RHAMES
3 Aug 1897
25 Feb 1968

Gloria C. RHAMES
28 Apr 1942
16 Feb 1990

Angus RHAMES
1902 - 1953
Rest in Peace

Thelma E. RHAMES
1912 - 1996
Rest in Peace

Tony Curtis RHAMES
22 Jun 1961
5 Dec 1974
In loving memory

Olie CUSHING
24 Nov 1925
20 Nov 1950
Love light my way to God

UNKNOWN Adult

              HOSKINS
Bueford L.              Rachel C. WHITTINGTON
2 Feb 1915              11 Aug 1918
14 Aug 1978             29 May 1991
SSML2 US Navy WW II

              HENSLEY
Edgar Lowell            Irma Lee
8 Apr 1923              14 Nov 1917
10 Apr 1972
Kentucky
TSgt US Air Force
WW II & Korea

Willard "WC" Carter DANIELS
16 Oct 1928
21 Sep 1984
Sgt US Air Force
The Lord is my Shepherd
The angels called him home to rest
Loving father and husband
Mason

              DANIELS
Jarott C.               Florence C.
4 Feb 1908              2 Apr 1910
10 Jul 1996             12 May 1986
Gone to Rest            Gone to a bright
but not forgotten       home where grief 
                        can't come
      They steered their course
      to the same quiet shore, not
      parted long and now to part
      no more

Joyce D. STRICKLAND
8 Apr 1931

Weep not she is at rest. There
is rest in heaven. She died as
she lived a Christian

              MIMS
"Pee Wee"
Marion O.               Parion R.
1943                    16 Aug 1935
1984                    9 Sep 2000
Our love will           United as one
always be together      SN US Navy

              WALSH
Willis H.               Minnie E.
22 Feb 1894             18 Dec 1895

John Benjamin WHITFIELD
3 Apr 1932
30 May 1992

              WHITFIELD
Clarence F.             Pearl T.
5 Mar 1900              25 Dec 1904
10 Aug 1965             1 Sep 1990
     The Lord is my Shepherd

Benjamin F. WHITFIELD, Jr.
26 May 1980
9 Nov 1980
In loving memory

Benjamin Ferrell WHITFIELD
3 Oct 1956
25 Apr 1987
Forever in our hearts

W. Morrell, son of Warren & Marion WHITFIELD
27 May 1956
31 Oct 1957

Marion L. WHITFIELD
16 Nov 1934
10 Jan 1985

Ulysses Farrell WHITFIELD
26 Oct 1933
12 Apr 1983
Rest in peace my darling
you have sailed beyond
the horizon

Howell Clayton SURBER, Jr.
20 Aug 1908
21 Apr 1982

Nelson J. BOUCHER
10 Apr 1925
11 Mar 1980

Betty KEELEY FERRY
2 Jun 1926
24 May 1984

Nelson Edward FERRY
23 Oct 1952
29 Jun 1979

              WALKER
Woodrow Wilson          Mabethel BARNARD
19 Apr 1918             26 Apr 1919
21 Jan 1985             27 Jan 1999
A little time on        Loving, faithful and true.
earth he spent          Always by our side 
till God for him        We love you
his angel sent

William Farrell DOBBINS, Sr.
19 May 1942
26 Jan 1997
"He is in heaven now with the
greatest fisherman of all"

Weston Charlie CARTER
1 Feb 1927
23 Mar 1999
US Navy WW II

Lillie M. CARTER
6 Aug 1899
4 Oct 1980

Luther GUMBIE
4 Mar 1918
23 Jan 1979
US Army WW II

Helga SCHNEIDER
29 Nov 1935
20 Jun 1979

John R. SCHNEIDER
1916 - 1978
US Army WW II

Joyce D. MADDOX
23 Jun 1938
1 Jan 1998

              MADDOX
Russell Calvin          Mildred I.
15 Oct 1902             18 Oct 1911
18 Jun 1970             20 Aug 1991


THESE GRAVES ARE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE DRIVEWAY GOING THROUGH THE CEMETERY

Zonnie PADGETT
8 May 1908
21 Apr 1981
Rest in Peace

Clarence H. GUY
21 Jul 1903
3 Mar 1966

UNKNOWN Adult

Etta M. COLLINS
19 Feb 1878
9 Jan 1966

2 UNKNOWN infants

Emma Good SINGLETON
7 Apr 1875
8 Jul 1959

Clarence SINGLETON
23 Dec 1902
14 Nov 1925

Baby Boy DENTON
25 Aug 1948

Baby Girl DENTON
4 Mar 1946

Baby Boy DENTON
11 Apr 1945

Baby Girl DENTON
16 Dec 1949

              DENTON
Iris I.                 Lawson M.
19 Feb 1918             2 Nov 1917
                        10 Jan 1982

              DENTON
William M.              Ola Addie
20 Feb 1897             31 Dec 1897
18 Mar 1936             17 Dec 1968

Willie V. DENTON SMITH
22 Apr 1925
5 Apr 1952

Richard A. MCDANIEL
15 Jan 1944
2 Feb 1992
Beloved Friend and brother

Lillie BRANCH
14 Dec 1901
29 Sep 1978

William Elias BRANCH
20 Dec 1898
13 Mar 1982

Lula D. BRANCH
16 May 1904
5 Mar 1937

Eunice Dee BRANCH
15 Nov 1930
4 Sep 1931

Betty Ann, infant of Mr. & Mrs William BRANCH
(no dates)

WHITFIELD Twins
(Infants - no dates)

              WHITFIELD
Roy B.                  Cora L.
27 Apr 1913             22 Feb 1910
3 Mar 1990              21 Apr 1989

John L. ALFORD
8 Dec 1918
17 Nov 1985

              HAMMON
James Earl              Gwen L.
26 Jul 1937             18 Jan 1939
7 Feb 1987
        In loving memory

Bettie WISHARD
23 Mar 1850
24 Mar 1924

              WHITFIELD
Franklin B.             Laura V.
17 Jan 1873             31 Jan 1876
4 Jul 1952              9 Jul 1966

Eliza A. WHITFIELD
11 Nov 1907
1 Feb 1997
Beloved mother of 
Lou, Addie and Manuel

L. J. WHITFIELD
3 Feb 1902
28 Jun 1938

Estelle Odom WHITFIELD
1905 - 1925

UNKNOWN Infant in EAKER plot

Julia RAFFIELD  (adult)
(no dates)

Lucy RAFFIELD (adult)
(no dates)

Gullian RAFFIELD (adult)
(no dates)

Robert S. ALLEN
6 Oct 1920
4 Feb 1984

Mabel J. ALLEN
26 Jun 1926

              ODOM
James E.                Lilla E.
6 May 1903              16 Jul 1908
3 Sep 1976              11 Mar 1977

Marvin E. ODOM
8 Aug 1929
18 Nov 1933

James Edward ODOM, Jr.
19 Sep 1936
12 Oct 1999
Buried in Gordon, Alabama
Pleasant Hill Baptist Church Cemetery
Angels don't fly, they just walk away
one step at a time.

Marlin E. ODOM
14 Aug 1938
27 Nov 1972
Buried at Greenwood Cemetery, Panama City, FL

Will W. ODOM
12 May 1901
9 Dec 1925

Julia ODOM
8 Aug 1886
31 May 1954

Louis ODOM
8 May 1938
28 Nov 1939

Ola Mae WOOD
1910 - 1962

J. H. WOOD
1881 - 1969

H. M. WOOD
1953 - 1969

J. W. MORRIS
28 Jun 1904
26 Sep 1969

Lillie May MOORE
30 Mar 1902
18 Sep 1925
At Rest

E. P. MORRIS
10 Oct 1861
5 Dec 1923
At Rest

Lillar WARD MORRIS
17 Dec 1876
29 Jul 1913
At Rest

              ODOM
Henry H.                Mary Lee
7 Oct 1913              12 Feb 1914
1 Sep 1993              14 Sep 1972
Lodge No. 419 F.A.M.    Chapter No. 151 O.E.S.
      The Lord is my Shepherd

Ruth Ann ODOM
17 Nov 1944
19 Nov 1944

Idea Mae ODOM
24 Dec 1945
4 Feb 1946

John E. RHAMES (adult)
(no dates)

Vasti NICHOLS
1920 - 1938

UNKNOWN

Rebecca RHAMES WHALEY
25 Apr 1906
4 Dec 1939

J. J. RHAMES
12 Jun 1869
20 Feb 1918
At Rest

Sarah J. RHAMES
5 Jun 1871
21 Feb 1939

Axie Tw E You RKBO
23 Sep 1842

2 UNKNOWNS (old limestone marker - not readable)

Eugene WHITFIELD
26 Nov 1920
26 Nov 1920

Robert Roy WHITFIELD
28 Aug 1921
7 Feb 1924

              WHITFIELD
Rev. Early W.           Lois L.
18 Jun 1900             28 Jul 1903
14 Sep 1972             30 Jul 1997
Our father which        A mother's love is
art in Heaven           everlasting

Martha E. WHITFIELD
12 Apr 1932
22 Oct 1934

Frances E. GRACE
4 May 1873
7 Dec 1950

              WHITFIELD
Doris L.                Lloyd
6 Nov 1927              23 Oct 1923
10 Sep 1976

              SMITH
          m. 25 Jna 1941
Ellis Burl              Mary Evelyn
22 Nov 1917             20 Mar 1922
1 Jul 1979

William Ellis SMITH
1944 -             (funeral home marker - numbers missing)

James Guite HOLMES
31 Jan 1893
13 Jan 1962
Rest in Peace

Bertie Ann HOLMES
31 Jan 1895
4 Jun 1952
Rest in Peace

Villma Luester HOLMES
(adult)
(no dates)

Mary Etta HOLMES
1800 -             (no death date)

2 UNKNOWN Adults
(letters gone from funeral home marker)

UNKNOWN (old limestone marker - unreadable)

UKNOWN Adult

General Jackson KINARD
1909 - 1952

Ida KINARD
1875 - 1951

Velma PITTS
1903 - 1917

UNKNOWN (old marker - cypress board)

UNKNOWN child

UNKNOWN Infant

Alice M. MOSES
15 Nov 1906
18 Nov 1938
God bless you

UNKNOWN Adult

              MOSES
         m. 5 Mar 1938
Jim                     Martha
8 Aug 1911              9 May 1919
8 Jan 1985

              MOSES
         m. 8 Dec 1962
George Lovett           Glenda Joyce
28 Feb 1942             20 Aug 1946
1 Jan 1988

Johnathan Cruze HARRIS
26 Sep 1988
14 Oct 1988
Granddaddy's angel

Bea MOSES RAFFIELD
1907 - 1950

Walter MOSES
7 Nov 1902
21 Apr 1943
God Bless you

UNKNOWN Adult

Infant NEWSOME   (no dates)

6 UNKNOWN Adults

4 UNKNOWN (cypress wood headboards)

Cynthia KINARD
1850 - 1918

James KINARD
1851 - 1918

UNKNOWN

Jane Patrick EDENFIELD
28 Sep 1842
15 Nov 1926

              WHITFIELD
Ted L.                  Edith R.
31 Dec 1910             24 May 1917
25 Jul 1981

DESHAZO (Infant)
1912

UNKNOWN Adult

J. C. THOMAS, Jr.
Born and died 24 Sep 1938

              CHASON
Sarah Jane              Franklin Kenneth
12 Aug 1912             24 Sep 1886
11 Sep 1998             23 Jul 1978

UNKNOWN Adult

UNKNOWN Infant

J. R. BORDERS
27 Sep 1871
6 Jun 1925

Our Father
Willis DEKLE
1880 - 1911

Infant daughter BORDERS
Born & died 15 Apr 1951

Bobbie Lee BORDERS
23 Apr 1927
8 Aug 1983
Wonderful was your love for us
Beloved Father

Gary Lee BORDERS
18 Jan 1950
20 Oct 1997
Precious son - Beloved Brother -
You filled our lives with love

              BORDERS
         m. 14 Dec 1917
Cordie D.               Priscilla D.
30 Jul 1893             4 Nov 1896
6 Jan 1964              30 Mar 1998

Mary Etta BORDERS
19 Aug 1930
31 Dec 1932

Boyd BORDERS
1923 - 1978
Cpl US Army WW II

UNKNOWN Adult

              BRANCH
Willie Johnson Ralph    Ouida Y.
8 Jun 1927              12 Aug 1927
30 Apr 1992
PFC US Marine Corps
WW II
Let your heart lead the
way and never look back

Sherry Ann SMITH
15 Jan 1952
30 Oct 1954

2 UNKNOWN Adults



THESE GRAVES ARE ACROSS THE ROAD FROM MAIN PART OF CEMETERY

Ophelia Ann BROOKS
27 Jul 1937
10 Oct 1994
Her children shall call her blessed.
If you could see me now

Cordie B. BROOKS
6 May 1963
19 Apr 1980
In His Father's Arms

Jimmy Earl GILBERT
19 May 1943
1 Oct 1997
"Headman"

Conrad A. MARIEN
3 Feb 1917
8 Jun 1980

              MILLS
Adam                    Reginia Marie
22 Aug 1975             27 Aug 1975
8 Dec 1995              8 Dec 1995

Amy Nichole             Virginia Lynn
9 Jul 1995              25 Jan 1992
8 Dec 1995              8 Dec 1995
    A young family to make
    God's Heaven perfect - Roses,
    forget me nots and sweet peas
    blooms in God's garden forever

UNKNOWN Adult

Virginia Ann ARMSTRONG
6 Aug 1925
21 Aug 1988

Howard SHELLNUT
9 Apr 1913
19 Feb 1991

Lanny Scott PATTERSON
29 May 1977
7 May 1994
In God's Loving care

              BROWNELL
James Clenton           Annette Fay
19 May 1962             22 Dec 1968
                        1 May 1996
                        Mother of Lacy Nicole

Brian Mark PRIDGEON
24 Nov 1967
10 Oct 2000
Zack's Dad

              PRIDGEON
Anthony Lawson          Sharlyene RAFFIELD
29 Sep 1939             18 Nov 1943
                        7 Jul 1992

UNKNOWN Infant

Lucien ARNOLD
1908 - 1993

              ROPER
         m. 4 Mar 1982
Donald W.               Mary A.
1946 - 1986             1955 - 1995

              SANDERS
          m. 5 Jun 1973
Jesse M.                Lucille T.
16 Aug 1924             9 May 1934
20 Nov 1989
Gone but not forgotten

Sherry Yvonne BARTON JORDON
27 Jan 1957
28 Jun 1999
A rose budded on earth,
now blooming in heaven

Barbara L. BARTON
23 Jul 1950
12 Sep 1952
Forever in our hearts

              TOLBERT
Ira Clarence            Lena S.
15 Dec 1906             17 Apr 1910
23 Aug 1985             19 Oct 1991

              SANDERS
          m. 8 Oct 1962
Bobby Lee               Joyce Anna
29 Aug 1939             8 May 1942
 
    What God has joined together
    let no man seperate
    In loving memory

Ruth RAFFIELD DENMARK
Mother
9 May 1918
12 Apr 1989
In loving memory of
our mother

Eva Jane FENCL
18 Sep 1952
17 Jul 1997

              FENCL
Old Rich                Marie
13 Mar 1931             27 Feb 1932
29 Nov 1993             27 Sep 1988
        Together forever

Alice Mae Evelyn ADKINS
29 Nov 1919
18 Jun 1989

"Shorty"
Leland Thomas ADKINS
5 Apr 1915
7 Jun 1985


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Created: 3 Nov 2001
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