LOCATION:   NE/4 of the NW/4 of Section 25, T6S-7RW.

DIRECTIONS:   From the intersection of Bienville Boulevard (US 90) and Washington Avenue at Ocean Springs, go north on Washington Avenue 1.6 miles to Old Fort Bayou Road.  Turn right (east) and go east and northeast for 7.4 miles on Old Fort Bayou Road to Humphrey Road.  Turn right (east) and go .38 miles to the Shiloh Cemetery on the right (south).

HISTORY:   In July 1886, Christopher Quave (1858-1905+) gave the following land to the Methodist Episcopal Church of the South:

Beginning at a point 27.5 chains (1815 feet) from the NW/C of the NW/4 of the NW/4 of Section 25, T6S-R8W, (going east) and running thence south 210 feet, thence east 210 feet and thence north 210 feet and thence west 210 feet to the place of beginning so as to make one square acre and being the same lot or parcel wherein Shiloh Church now stands and had stood for any years.

A correction deed for the original, unrecorded deed was made on July 26, 1905.  At this time Mr. Quave conveyed the tract to Oren Switzer, H.G. McGowan, and Dr. A. H. Shannon, Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South for the Ocean Springs and Mission Charge in the Sea Shore District of the Mississippi Annual Conference.(1)
Christopher Quave was the son of Usant Quave (1834-1889) and Sarah Davis (1840-1908).  He married Martha Overstreet (1864-1910+) circa 1882.  She was the daughter of J.H. Overstreet (1832-1898) and Sarah E. Overstreet (1837-1923).  Christopher and Martha Quave reared a large family of eight children:  Zola (b. 1883), Hudson (b. 1885), Cassie (b. 1887), Pearly (b. 1889), Thomas (b. 1892), Alice (b. 1894), Willie (b. 1897), and Sarah (b. 1900).  Mr. Quave made his livelihood as a farmer.(2)
It can be determined with a high degree of certitude that the Shiloh Church was operative as early as early 1893, when William A. Sigerson (1844-1906) conveyed a tract of land in the area to Melissa Clement (1833-1903).  The warranty deed had the following exemption, "that one acre in the north end of the land described above where the ME church now stands, called Shiloh Church which is deeded for church purposes".(3)
In April 1916, John P. Edwards donated a parcel of land 165 feet by 210 feet directly east of the original one square acre gift of Christopher Quave.  The Trustees of the Shiloh Methodist Episcopal Church at this time were:  W.K. Ramsay, W.Y. Cain, Thomas E. Ramsay, Sardin G. Ramsay, Robert C. Roberts, Dr. Samuel R. Ratliff (1873-1936), Edward David, Reverend J.H. Havens, and S.R. Byrd.(4)
It is interesting to note that Usant Quave donated land to the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church for a cemetery in June 1887.(5)

In Requiem: Volume 1, (1969), the following information was published:(6)

Charlie Devro                                                              Mary Devro
Born June 25, 1881                                                     Born March 5, 1797
Died Decemebr 26, 1909                                            Died ?

Samuel Devro                                                            Gay Devro
Co. E, 3rd Miss. Inf., C.S.A.                                     (remainder not legible)
(Emblem-Maltese cross in a circle)

Henry Webb
Co. A, 3rd Miss. Infantry, C.S.A.
(Emblem-Maltese cross in a circle)

May Bob My child
In memory of Margaret Devro
Born February 19, 1877
Died October ? (not legible)

Magelena Devereaux Bellais                 1879 to 1902
Wilhelmina Bellais                                1900-1901

Trenton Todd Bowers                           1964 to 1987

Curtis J. Courtney                                  6-4-1923 to 2-23-1991
F1 USN WW II

Ray Wilson Devereaux                           8-4-1917 to 1-10-1978
Colonel USAF WW II

Charlie Devereaux                                  1881 to 1909

Serena Webb Devereaux                        1845 to 1904

Infant son of Bill and Sarah Devereaux  1902 to 1902

Samuel Devro - Co E, 3rd Mississippi Infantry

William Clyde Faulk                               12-17-1982 to 12-17-1982

Brenda E. Overstreet Watts? Ferrier       2-29-1952 to 3-4-1996

William Holland
Mrs. William Holland
Caddie Holland
Mittie Holland

Jimmy R. Mayberry                            9-11-1952 to
Betty Louise Mayberry                       4-6-1957 to 1-8-1997

Leo Elbert Noble, Sr.                         9-20-1909 to
Mable Perez Noble                             8-22-1909 to 10-6-1984

Isabella Quave Overstreet                   c. 1868 to 1896

Margaret Devereaux Post                   1877 to 1916

Daniel Webb                                       1815 to ?
Mary Ann Rogers Webb                      1820 to ?

Joe Webb                                            c. 1895 to c. 1915

Henry Webb - Co E, 3rd Mississippi Infantry

 RETURN TO THE DEVRO - 1969 PUBLISHED SURVEY

 RETURN TO TOP OF 1997 SHILOH CEMETERY SURVEY

REFERENCES:

1.   Jackson County, Miss. Land Deed Book 30, p. 246.
2. 1900 Federal Census-Jackson County, Miss.
3.   Jackson County, Mississippi Land Deed Book 14, p. 488.
4.   Jackson County, Mississippi Land Deed Book 42, p. 439.
5.   Jackson County, Miss. Land Deed Book 32, p. 311.
6.   Requiem:  Jackson County, Mississippi Cemetery Records, Volume 1, (Jackson County                                                                                                                                                                          Genealogical Society: Pascagoula, Mississippi-1969), p. 102.

Ray L. Bellande
PO BOX 617
Ocean Springs
Mississippi 39566-0614
(601) 872-3880
August 5, 1997
 
 
 

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