LOCATION:  Approximately 2 1/2 miles northeast of Ocean Springs in the SW/4 of the SE/4 of Section 16, T7S-R8W.  The cemetery is located at 5900 Basque Road across from the St.
Martin High School athletic fields.

DIRECTIONS:  From the intersection of Bienville Boulevard (US 90) and Washington Avenue at Ocean Springs, go north on Washington Avenue 1.65 miles to Old Fort Bayou Road.  Turn right (east) on Old Fort Bayou Road and go 1.8 miles to Bayou Drive-Yellow Jacket Boulevard.  Turn right onto Bayou Drive and go 1.2 miles to Kippie Cut-Off Road.  Bear left for .5 miles to Basque Road on the right (south).  Turn into Basque Road and observe the Bernard Basque Cemetery on the right (east).
 

                  NEW BASQUE CEMETERY 1992

HISTORY:  The Bernard Basque Cemetery is located on the private property of Bernard Basque just north of Old Fort Bayou in Jackson County.  Mr. Basque developed this family
cemetery about 1980 as the result of excessive vandalism at the remote Seymour Cemetery where some of his immediate family were buried.  Three Basque family members were re-
moved from the Seymour Cemetery and interred in the Bernard Basque Cemetery.  Before entering the cemetery grounds permission from Mr. Basque should be sought.

                          REGISTER

Ernest Alvin Amos, Sr.               3-29-1921 to 8-8-1988
b. Pensacola, Florida
Ernest A. Amos Jr.                  2-15-1952 to 9-25-2000

                             B
Helen Margaret Seymour Basque  12-15-1921 to 06-03-2002

Thersa Smagacz Basque                6-13-1932 to 10-30-1991
b. Dunkirk, New York

Joseph F. Basque*                         7-25-1913 to 1-14-1979
Veteran WW II

Dola Eve Seymour*                       12-24-1906 to 9-14-1969
"The Wandering Traveller"
wife of J.F. Basque
b. Ocean Springs, Mississippi
d. Grenada, Mississippi

Wiley W. Boone*                           9-13-1912 to 12-20-1973
Lucille A. M. Basque                     (living)
married 12-27-1941

*  Removed from William Seymour Cemetery (Bayou Talla).

Personal Communication:

Bernard Basque on January 13, 1992.

Surveyed by:
Ray L. Bellande
PO Box 617
Ocean Springs, Mississippi
January 13, 1992
 

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