DELANCY FAMILY CEMETERY, WEST LATIMER, MISSISSIPPI
DELANCEY FAMILY
CEMETERY
WEST LATIMER
JACKSON COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI


DELANCEY FAMILY CEMETERY
West Latimer Area

LOCATION:  Extreme western Jackson County in the SE/4, SW/4, NW/4 of Section 34, T6S-R9W.  Approximately 3.60 miles NNE of D' Iberville, Mississippi.

DIRECTIONS:   From the intersection of Bienville Boulevard (US 90) and Washington Avenue at Ocean Springs, Mississippi go N-NW on Washington Avenue in Ocean Springs for 2.5 miles to Le Moyne Boulevard.  At LeMoyne Boulevard go west (left) 3.5 miles to Lamey Bridge Road.  Here go N (right) 2.25 miles to Johnson Road.  On Johnson Road go NE .50 miles to Daisy-Vestry Road.  At this juncture, go left (N) .75 miles on Daisy-Vestry to its intersection with McClellan Road.  Go west .30 miles to the Delancey Cemetery at the end of McClellan Road.
 

HISTORY:  The history of the Delancey Family Cemetery can be interpreted from the US Census Records, Jackson County Land Deed Records, and other reliable sources as follows:
The earliest burial in the cemetery is that of Susan Delancey (1835-1884).  From the US Census of 1870, she is the wife of Henry Delancey (1830-1903).  At this time, the Delanceys were living in T7S-R9W (south of the Cemetery and NW of Ocean Springs).  Henry was a coal burner and they had four sons:  David (1857-1942), Richard (b. 1858), William (b.1860), and ? (b.1867).  After Susan Delancey died in 1884, Henry married Francies Dees (1847-1927).
William Delancey (b. 1860) who was living at Florala, Mississippi, the site of a large turpentine still between Latimer and Larue in western Jackson County, purchased a tract of land from J.H. Johnson on June 29, 1905, to wit:

Situated in Jackson County, Mississippi, 1/4 of an acre in the SW/4, of the NW/4, Section 34 T6S-R9W, known as the De Lancy grave yard and to be used for a cemetery and burial purposes and no other.(Jackson County Deed Book 29, p. 63).

It is of interest that Mary Elizabeth Delancey (1870-1950) interred here was the postmaster at Florala from 1901-1905, and at Latimer in 1908.

REGISTER

     Mary Elizabeth Delancey
     March 17, 1870
     July 16, 1950
     Tho lost to sight.  Memory dear.

     David L. Delancey
     March 7, 1857
     February 16, 1942
     We will meet again

     Clifton
     Son of  D.L. and Mary Delancey
     Born August 27, 1903
     Died November 17, 1908
     Too Good For Earth
     God Called Him Home

     Baby boy Delancey (possibly four)

    Honer "Tom" Delancey
    Born October 17, 1931
    Died August 13, 2000

     Susan Delancey
     Born September 20, 1830
     Died December 30, 1903

     Francies Dees
     Wife of H.C. Delancey
     September 22, 1847
     June 12, 1921
     Asleep in Jesus

      J.C. Walden
     July 18, 1856
     May 27, 1921
     Death is only a dream

     Mother
     Grace Delancey Quave
     April 19, 1899
     July 23, 1951
     Father
     Willie Ray Quave
     August 21, 1897
     October 4, 1972
     Brother
     Roland Kenneth Quave
     August 1, 1924
     October 2, 1986

`    One grave with rusty metal marker

     Baby Morrison

     One grave with rusty metal marker
 

REFERENCES:

Mississippi Press Register, "Latimer, Once-thriving center still active, growing", by Regina Hines , January 30, 1989, p. 1.

U.S. Census - Jackson County, Mississippi (1870).

Surveyed on January 22, 1990:
Ray L. Bellande
 


OLD DELANCEY HOME
Latimer Community
Jackson County, Mississippi

LOCATION:  SE/4 of Section 11, T6S-R9W.

DIRECTIONS:  From the intersection of US 90 and Washington
Avenue at Ocean Springs, go north to Tucker Road.  Tucker
Road to Old Biloxi Road to Larue Road.

HISTORY:   Eighty acres of land being the W/2 of the SE/4 of
Section 11, T6S-R9W, purchased for homesite by David
Langston Delancey (1857-1942) in April 1882.(1)
He was the son of Henry Delancey (1830-1903) and Susan
(1835-1884).
     David L. Delancey was married to Mary Elizabeth Walden
(1870-1950).  Her parents were Virginian, Benjamin Walden
(1821-1866+) and Minerva Fartheree (b. 1837).  Mr. Walden
served as sheriff of Harrison County from 1862-1866.  The
Fartheree family had come to Mississippi before 1850, from
Georgia.
     David L. Delancey made his livelihood as a farmer,
logger, and coal burner.  Mrs. Mary Delancey served as
postmaster at Latimer from 1908 to 1913.
     The Delanceys had eight children:  Bertha D. Wescovich,
Clara D. Cunningham (1891-1957), Grace D. Quave (1899-1951),
Virda Mallette (1897-1979), Walter Delancey (1889-1962),
Howard Delancey (1908-1991), Clifton Delancey (1903-1908),
and Austin Delancey (?-1996).
     David L. Delancey conveyed to Verda D. Mallette in May
1937.(2)  In June 1941, Verda D. Mallette to David L.
Delancey et al.(3)  In June 1941, David L. Delancey to
Howard Delancey.(4)
     Howard Delancey was married to Ophelia Cates (b. 1920).
 She was the daughter of Cates and         .  Their
children:  Melba June McGill, Wallace Ira Delamcey, and
Howard Derald Delancey.  Delancey made his living as a ship
fitter for Ingalls.  Master Mason and member of the Ezell
Lodge No. 426 at Vancleave.  Buried at Bethel Hill Baptist
Church Cemetery in Latimer.
     In January 1965, Howard Delancey conveyed to Ophelia
Cates Delancey, his wife, the W/2 of the SE/4 of Section 11,
T7S-R9W, less two acres conveyed to his sons, Howard Derald
Delancey and Wallace Ira Delancey.(5)

REFERENCES:

1.  Jackson County, Ms. Land Deed Book 6, pp. 33-34.
2.  ----------------------------- Book 71, p. 387.
3.  ----------------------------- Book 77, pp. 448-449.
4.  ----------------------------- Book 77, pp. 448-449.
5.  ----------------------------- Book 267, p. 573.

The History of Jackson County, Mississippi, "Joe Berry Cunningham and Clara Delancey", (Jackson County Genealogical Society:  Pascagoula, Mississippi-1989), pp. 178-179.

The Sun Herald, "Howard Delancey", January 15, 1991, p. C-2,
c. 4.

US CENSUS-Harrison County, Mississippi (1850, 1860, 1870)

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