Hendley Cemetery, Calhoun County, MS
Hendley Cemetery
Transcribed and submitted by Brenda
I went in to the Hendley cemetery in the late 1980's in my car but Weyerhaeuser was in there cutting trees at the time and had a pretty good road going in off of 9W at Providence Church. I
came out on a different little road looking to see what I could find but didn't see anything. I had always heard the Hendley cemetery called the Old Big Rock Cemetery and the road that used to run from the old water tank off of 331 to 9W at Providence was called the Old Big Rock Road. According to my Dad, it ran from Sarepta to Water Valley when he was a little boy.
J. H. PREWETT (John Hubert
"Jehu" Prewett)
husband of M.F. Prewett
born August 26, 1849
died February 14, 1926
He is the son of Robert Walter "Bob" Prewett and Nancy Ansenith "Neithie"
Winter. He married Mary Frances Gentry, daughter of John Newton Gentry
and Nancy Jane Screws.
W. M. SHARP
born March 5, 1827
died July 25, 1899
N. C. SHARP
born June 20, 1828
died September 17, 1899
Mrs. M. L. FRANKS
daughter of W. M. & N. C. Sharp
born September 1856
died December 23, 1900
R. L. RENDLEY
born January 01, 1855
died June 18, 1878
Wilson MIZE
born March 16, 1828
died October 23, 1905
Nancy W. WEBB
wife of A.J. YANCY
born March 02, 1846
died February 23, 1900 Nancy and A. J. were living next door to
Bob and Neithie Prewett in 1880.
There are several rocks marking
graves. Jehu Prewett is supposely buried beside his first wife and a child
that died at birth but there are no records to verify this. Nancy W. Webb
is related to the Prewett's but I have not made the connection. She is
thought to be the daughter of Wilson Mize.
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