Old Gauley Cemetery, Calhoun County, MS

Old Gauley Cemetery

Calhoun County MS


 Jan. 30, 2006 --- Michael Vaughan has submitted photos on a separate website
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Old Gauley Transcriptions

Copied on 5/26/03  by Lura Kauffman, [email protected]

Granddaughter of Jim Hastings and Tezzie Goodson of Calhoun County
 
 

Duel Lathen Cantrell    6/9/1918    6/8/1920

Mrs. W.F. Parker    1861-1927

Sarah  F. Mitchell    1855-1935

Ruben Polk Mitchell    8/13/1845    1/15/1918

Tellie Mitchell    11/30/1885    9/14/1921

Myrtle Parker    12/16/1905    9/9/1923

John Earl Hill    8/23/1942    8/23/1942    son of William Otho Hill & Lillian Avie Cantrell

Jimmie Mae    Dau. of Jim & Ethel Lee    1/3/1919    11/29/1939

James F. Lee     Pvt 1st MS Field Arty N.G.    Died 7/5/1942
{B. E. O'Quinn Funeral Home, Parkin, Arkansas Age 49 years 10 months 18 days}

Lillie Z. Lee    1890-1915

Velma L. Harrelson    1912-1930

Vernon Lee    1911-1947

Winnie Lee    Wife of Shelby D. Lee    1/7/1903    4/24/1934

Charley Doyle Lee    Mississippi Sgt. 138 QM Service Co    WWII   Korea    12/14/1919    11/21/1954

Clara Mae    Daughter of G.C. & E. Lee    12/5/1911    7/4/1912

Sandstone {unknown grave}

Shelby D. Lee    MS Pvt 28 Inf. 1st Div    11/13/1931

S.C. Lee    2/2/1855    2/3/1930

D.A. wife of S.C. Lee    10/3/1857    2/15/1940

Dee Cozart    2/5/1876    4/15/1928    {male - inscription "He has..."}

Mattie J. Cozart    9/24/1881    9/2/1901

William Cozart    Co F 2nd MS Partisan Rangers CSA

Sara Vester    Wife of J.H. Parker    12/1/1884    6/11/1932

Claude  J.    3/8/1906    5/13/1907    {one marker}
Euvie     3/10/1908     3/17/1908    daughters of J.H. & S.O. Parker

Our baby    John Helmer    8/24/1933    1/16/1936    {newer marker}
Little John Helmer Age 2 years 6 months 21 days  Died Jan. 16, 1936 {old homemade marker}

James L. Berry    MS Pvt U.S. Army    7/18/1933

Maudie Whitworth Goodson    1896-1921

Small concrete marker with etched cross - Mary Elizabeth Smith Sims     4/8/1876     2/21/1958
First wife of Sam Gholson Sims - Pryor Funeral Home Records

Sam G. Sims    5/29/1863    9/30/1940

Daylilies outline - Charlie Howard Keenum - son of Joseph Savannah "Vanner" and Annie Bell Keenum
{Information from Annie V. Keenum Murphree - sister.  Once had a tent of tin as a coverning, when the braces fell, tin left on ground, just north of Sammie Sims grave near the large tree at the roadside fence.}

J.L. Smith    10/24/1892    9/29/1917

Jessye Wayne Goodson    12/4/1926    12/4/1926

Cicero Goodson    1/7/1876    6/27/1913
[Family Records: brother of Tezzie Goodson; he died of burst appendix]

Blank pink granite marker - Sammie Sims Smith     12/5/1900    8/18/1938
Wife of Earnest Smith, Daughter of Sam G. Sims - Pryor Funeral Home Records - MS Death Certificate

William C. Cozart    1872-1946

Ruby Myrtle    Daughter of R.E. & A.L. Lee    4/30/1902    10/16/1903

Leather    11/26/1906    10/8/1907        {one marker}
Mittie Odell    7/19/1914    2/11/1915    children of W.C. & C.O. Cozart

Lillie Tott    Daughter of W.E. & Alice Hellums    10/5/1902    10/5/1906

Bessie    Daughter of J.F. & N.C. Parker    11/29/1894    11/19/1908

W. Dee Cook    1882-1910

Mattie    Wife of W.J. Cook    12/16/1857    2/27/1896

Martha Fay    Infant of Fate & Goldie Moutry    1/17/1927    1/22/1927

W.C. B. Byars    Co F 29th MS Inf CSA

Eliza Jane    Wife of L.R. Caldwell    2/5/1872    1/13/1910

W.J. Patterson    4/10/1841    11/27/1918

Susan V.    Daughter of E.B. Garner & wife of  W. J. Patterson    10/11/1840    2/3/1896

Lilly May    12/19/1899      9/15/1900    {one marker}
Infant son    1/13/1898    2/19/1898    Children of W.T. & Effie Cozart

W.B. Keeton    2/15/1849    6/1/1939    [Pryor Funeral Home marker]

Beadie Ruth Parker Baker    5/29/1911    7/26/1935
[Family Records: killed accidentally when she fell off the back of a truck driven by her husband; she was on her way to Tezzie and Jim Hastings home to sew clothes for her children]

W.C. Parker [Carlos]    1885-1930    [Family Records: father of Beadie Ruth Parker Baker]

N. V. Wife of C. P. Brooks    Died July 3, 1905    Aged 36 years

W. N. Carlisle    Co I 37 Regt  Ala. Inf  CSA      9/5/1835    8/3/1910

Fannie    Wife of J. G. Griffin    1/7/1879    4/14/1923    "Holman's Mother"

White marker - J. E. V.

White marker - N. A. V.

White marble footstone - E. J. C.

Four older headstone and footstone concrete blocks at entrance - no markings

Two infants of Ray and Winnie Sims Goodson - unmarked {Information from Curtis Bryant}

Frances Elizabeth Caldwell, Wife of James Caldwell, Daughter of Clayborn Patterson
Born Dec 12 1837    Died June 21, 1923    - MS Death Certificate # 9827

Victoria Berry McDonald -  Monitor Herald  Nov. 24 1932 obituary - Mother of James Berry

Information from Clarice & Clyde Goodson papers dated September 1987:

 Family of Willis Keeton:

     
  1. Bobbie Keeton (wife)
  2. Emma Keeton (daughter)
  3. Veselee Keeton (daughter)
  4. Child of 11 or 12 years old
Family of William "Bill" Fondern
  1. William Fondern
  2. Henritta Fondern (wife)
  3. George Fondern (son)
  4. Esquire Fondern (son)
  5. Paralee Fondern Ellenburg (daughter)
  6. Frank Ellenburg
Other Unmarked Graves:
  1. Fannie Strickland, housekeeper for Eusie Griffin (?)
  2. 2 or 3 stillborn babies of William and Emma Fondern's
  3. Stillborn baby of Thomas & Rosa Boswell, a Tennessee couple
  4. Stillborn baby of Ernest & Sammie Smith
  5. 2 Caldwell ladies
Several other unmarked graves
 

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