The epitaphs are as follows:

Page 1

Jasper Tillman
Oct 6 1923
Feb 16 2004

Gregory Battle
Mar 26 1961
Jan 16 2007

Cora Lee Coley
Nov 20 1916
NOD

Katie Bell Johnson
Nov 22 1916
Jan 13 1988

Gloria Lamonte Eborn
Jan 2 1940
May 30 1990

Amos R Strayhorn Jr
Mar 13 1945
Jan 30 1991

Herman Wayne Daughety
June 5 1936
Jan 11 1992

Vernelle Jordan
Apr 26 1950
Jan 26 1992

Katrina Pugh
Apr 28 1952
June 11 1992

Leslie Guyer
Feb 3 1917
Oct 10 1992

Ruth Elizabeth Zimmerman
Aug 26 1898
Feb 20 1993

Mary Douglas Burgin
Apr 13 1918
Apr 29 1993

Thomas Miller
May 14 1896
Mar 5 1995

Diane Marie Thigpen
Apr 8 1954
June 5 1995

Joe Manley
March 20 1964
July 6 1995

Ruby Watson
Aug 12 1933
Oct 22 1995

Pauline Ford
Dec 10 1951
Nov 11 1995

Arthur Mack Harrington
Dec 24 1946
Oct 21 1996

Daisy Mae Bateman
Mar 28 1914
Dec 16 1997

Anne Claire Coughlan
Oct 23 1928
Jan 9 1998

Edward Gossett
Dec 11 1917
Apr 17 1998

Roger Laten Jones
Sept 10 1936
July 9 1998

Leroy Tevepaugh
Jan 2 1943
Aug 15 1998

Jesse Ray King
Aug 5 1922
Sept 7 1998

Roger Matthews
Mar 26 1923
Aug 28 2004

John Tyson
Jan 8 1946
Mar 19 2007

Norman O Brown
11-4-1929
8-4-1964

Raymond W McGee
8-28-1935
4-1-1965

Jimmy Odell Reeves
3-10-1946
2-25-1966

Leo Evans
5-22-1941
3-23-1967

Al Dexter Sr
12-16-1949
7-?-?
(Broken Stone)

Etta Woody 
7-27-1917
3-28-1970

Herman L Whitehead
1-11-1943
5-31-1970

Bobby Lee Jones
7-14-1894
6-2-1970

Edward Johnson
4-9-51
7-5-70

Myrtle Woodard
1894
10-30-70

Walter "J.T." Lamm
10-31-1918
11-11-70

Jane Tufts Sanders
12-1-1926
9-15-1972

James R Marshborn
5-28-1913
12-12-1972

James W Davis
10-24-1900
3-9-1977

William Wesley Walters Jr
Nov 20 1968
Jan 14 1982

Margaret C Evans
Jan 17 1916
Apr 28 1982

Marvin C Covington
May 17 1906
Mar 13 1984

Elizabeth Leary Dob
Jan 19 1952
Feb 24 1985

Nellie Burdell Shuler
Jan 27 1929
Jan 29 1986

Joe Hawkins
Mar 1 1908
Jan 17 1987

Tammie Renee Mobley
Apr 6 1966
Feb 7 1987

Larmer Blizzard Jr
Nov 24 1939
Dec 20 1987

Nancy Lee Farrow
June 5 1916
Dec 28 1987



Mary Louise Mobley
Jan 4 1931
Dec 29 1987

Arthur Joyner
Jan 29 1943
Aug 7 1988

Kathy Michelle Weaver
Oct 18 1966
Oct 26 1988

Lewis Waddell Murray
Apr 12 1914
Mar 30 2003

Johnny Marvin Williams
Aug 13 1965
Dec 4 2003

Rosa Wilbourne
May 13 1916
Nov 15 2004

Sandra Sawyer
Dec 30 1948
Aug 13 2005

Joseph Robinson
June 20 1937
Sept 1 2005

Charles Henderson
Aug 27 1944
Sept 21 2005

Henry Ownley
Apr 17 1933
Dec 16 2005

Jasper Roebuck Jr
July 6 1951
Feb 12 2006

Wiley Langley
Feb 7 1933
Apr 6 2006

Edmon Rodgers
Mar 29 1952
Sept 21 2006

Julia Wilson
Sept 16 1916
Nov 14 2004

Ronald Williams
Sept 4 1963
Oct 4 2004

Alfreida Silver
July 16 1947
Sept 23 2004

Tina Baker
July 30 1928
Aug 7 2004

Eugene McKeithan
Sept 9 1928
Oct 16 2003

Jo Ann Thomas
Jan 5 1964
Mar 4 2003

Alvin Canady
July 8 1962
Jan 20 1999

Roy Freeze
Oct 3 1968
July 1 1997

Allison T Pridgen
Jan 28 1925
May 29 1994

Clint Carlton
Jan 30 1925
Aug 5 1991

Thelma Lee Robbins
Apr 14 1922
July 15 1991

Carolyn Renee Batchelor
Dec 22 1965
Mar 28 1988

Jerry Miah Carr
Apr 19 1916
Feb 7 1988

Nellie May Smith
Jan 17 1905
Aug 31 1987

Barbara Morse
June 24 1935
July 27 1987

Anthony Ward (Tony)
Jan 27 1964
Feb 13 1987

Kit Shepard Jr
June 1 1942
Jan 7 1983

Viola Bowen
June 12 1919
June 21 1982

Fred W Warren
4-2-1908
5-12-1964

Hugh McMillian
11-21-20
1-30-64

John F French
11-15-38
12-8-63

Alma May Sherrill
4-8-08
11-3-63

Irma Hope Lewis
1901
9-25-63

William R Currie
8-15-50
6-15-63

Mary Ruth Brackett
7-30-23
3-19-63

Preston Mann
12-1951
11-25-62

Herbert E McCain
1-2-1935
5-25-1962

Mildred Irene Floars
1911
5-1-1962

Virginia M Clontz
3-1-1919
3-12-1962

Callie Young
4-7-1915
3-6-1962

Patricia A Boothe
9-10-1943
11-11-1961

Harold D Ferguson
8-8-1936
8-20-1961

Edna Lee Warren
8-25-05
3-18-61

Peggy Rose Ellis
7-8-40
8-30-60

Annie Lee Conley
3-1-32
1-28-60

Althie E Maness
4-18-99
1-3-60

Odum O'Dell McCall
5-6-22
11-27-59


Page 3

Wade Lee Hawley
9-10-29
3-31-59

James A Winston
8-3-1956
3-16-1977

James Crane
June 11 1921
Aug 3 1939

Samuel Woodson
June 17 1913
Nov 27 1933

Cora Eldridge
April 15 1892
Sept 9 1932

Henry Roman
Feb 2 1904
Feb 26 1933

Lora C Businger
Birth Unknown
Oct 30 1934

Gladys Williamson
June 12 1904
Jan 12 1395

Marvin Brown
Nov 12 1923
Jan 18 1935

Susan Kingrey
June 10 1924
Feb 1 1935

Joe West Daugherty
Sept 12 1910
March 31 1935

William Pleasant
July 31 1915
June 20 1935

Leland Morga
Oct 17 1926
Apr 18 1934

Neppie Creech
Jan 18 1909
March 4 1935

Maybelle Fisher
June 13 1908
Feb 15 1936

Sherman Hollifield
March 20 1907
March 11 1936

Evelyn L Saunders
Feb 12 1926
July 15 1938

Louisa Butts
Sept 7 1917
Oct 23 1938

Annie Hyman
Nov 4 1902
Feb 19 1939

Susie Tomlinson
Feb 1 1916
March 26 1939

Ruby Ashley
12-30-22
2-6-59

Rose Marie Bess
June 12 1965
Aug 19 1988

Edith Melissa Cutler
Apr 10 1915
Dec 9 1991

Martha Elizabeth Wooten
Jan 26 1946
Mar 29 1992

Eber Whitley
May 8 1915
June 3 1992

Mary Lavone Miller
Feb 11 1921
Nov 9 1993

Willie Ray Staton
Dec 21 1945
Feb 18 2000

Mattie Adele Webb
Oct 25 1919
Dec 7 2000

Curtis Ray Poole
Dec 20 1950
Dec 16 2000

Oscar Banks
Apr 4 1914
Jan 8 2001

Mary Martha Keel
June 5 1948
Feb 25 2001

Willie King Smith
Apr 6 1955
Aug 15 2001

Leona Virginia Turner
Mar 17 1915
Dec 22 2001 

John Carson Bordeaux III
Aug 24 1954
Mar 25 2002

Frank Kevin Sheary
Mar 6 1946
June 6 2002

Clyde Brown
Nov 14 1932
July 25 2002

Myrtle Pleasant
July 31 1915
Sept 4 2002

Ernest Moss
Feb 5 1935
Nov 1 2002

Leo Franklin Gilliam
Jan 14 1954
Nov 24 2000

Teresa Mae Thigpen
Mar 6 1958
Oct 16 2000

William Edward Benton
Oct 29 1919
Oct 5 2000

Charles Jones
June 30 1920
Aug 30 2000

Dallas Earl Ward
Jan 9 1951
Jan 30 2000

Charles B Register
Apr 15 1967
Dec 18 1999

Mary Alice Smith
June 28 1938
Dec 4 1999

Audrey Byerly
Feb 21 1907
May 1 1990

Earnest Arthur Wilcox
July 27 1910
Nov 23 1989

Edna M Clanton
Sept 29 1935
Sept 7 1989

Albert Wilcox
Oct 16 1911
June 16 1986

Milton Ray Lyons
Apr 27 1956
Jan 29 1986


Page 4


Jeanette L Taylor
June 16 1933
Jan 2 1986

Thomas Edward Battle
Dec 18 1955
Jan 20 1983

Docia Buff
Feb 2 1903
Dec 9 1980

Vernon Williams
Jan 28 1922
Oct 14 1980

Lettie Ophelia Denton
9-11-1908
3-17-1980

Myrtle M Butcher
4-14-1923
6-8-1978

Burt Lokey
Jan 10 1920
July 24 1939

Zella Shackleford
Aug 8 1909
June 3 1938

Liston Davis
Sept 16 1916
Feb 22 1958

Samuel Dixon
March 21 1917
Jan 20 1938

Ophelia Bass
Feb 10 1918
Jan 7 1938

Arthur Swain
June 28 1916
May 10 1936

John Pearce
Sept 21 1914
Aug 10 1932

Howard Richarson
Sept 7 1919
Aug 2 1932

Roger O'Neal
July 3 1915
July 6 1932

Lucille Holton
Dec 25 1906
June 7 1932

Mrs.Annie E Piner
April 4 1886
May 17 1932

Viola Stanley
Sept 1 1918
Aug 25 1932

John E Nance
Nov 8 1913
Dec 12 1931

Ola Westmoreland
Died Sept 30 1931

Norman Creel
Died Aug 6 1931

Mary Blackburn
Died July 21 1931

John Foreman
Died July 13 1931

E J Carroll
Died April 6 1931

Launa Melvin
Died March 1 1931

Lee Murray
Died July 15 1930

Dorothy L Odell
5-23-1941
8-8-1974

Sidney Lee Williams
10-20-1948
3-30-1971

Benjamin Graybeal
4-3-1907
3-19-1971

Harrison Gray Swain
5-27-1917
2-6-1971

Grady Williams Jr
1-17-1940
1-3-1971

Dow Jones
7-16-1908
12-3-1970

George Gregory Lowe
July 7 1913
Feb 11 1940

Thomas Golden
Died May 8 1930

?lph Brown
Died Nov 14 1925

Edna E Francis
Died Dec 4 1928

Jean May 
Died Oct 16 1928

Mae Simpson
Died Dec 19 1928

Irma Hardison
11-1-1900
7-3-1971

Frank Stiles
8-23-1918
8-21-1971

Violet Frances Hall
7-6-1935
9-5-1972

Frances E Gordon
4-3-1928
9-25-1972

Ricky Lee Hewitt
6-15-1959
11-3-1972

Alfred E Jones
11-19-1928
11-20-1972

Joseph Hurst
May 9 1963
June 28 1986

Lois Summerlin
2-17-1912
12-6-1972

Thurman L Campbell
9-18-1936
5-9-1975

Arthur P Philastre
4-11-1948
10-12-1976

Lizzie Crump
1903
1-18-1977

Clarence R Acrey
7-17-1905
4-13-1977


Page 5

Felton R Dillon
5-28-1919
10-8-1977

Pearl Jones
1-20-1895
3-9-1978

Glenmore Ellis Hopkins
1-15-1915
6-19-1979

Mamie M Stevenson
1-9-1901
10-14-1979

Calvin Leon Dunn
Sept 28 1959
Feb 6 1981

Virginia Guerin
June 11 1946
Dec 28 1984

Joann Clewis
Nov 25 1962
Oct 27 1985

Jerome Moten
Feb 19 1945
Dec 2 1993

Joe Frank Bond
Mar 11 1948
Aug 4 1997

William Drummond Dillon
Dec 12 1916
Feb 9 1999

Alice Rogers
Dec 29 1901
Aug 6 1999

Marion Melba Foreman
Oct 24 1918
Nov 20 1999

Thomas Ray Swain
Sept 20 1945
Jan 1 2000

Michael Lanier Peterson
Aug 13 1959
Feb 23 1991

Tommy Jones
June 27 1910
Oct 31 1983

Gloria Jean Summerville
Apr 3 1951
Aug 3 1983

Louis Leonidas Powers
5-15-1929
10-25-1980

Willamae Harrell
8-2-1907
10-6-1977

William G Waller
3-24-1945
8-25-1977

Edward Powell Jr
9-12-1940
4-10-1967

Henry Bennett Hewett
10-10-28
9-23-58

Molly A Ridenhour
3-16-33
11-18-57

Ruth Blythe Baker
5-22-21
4-4-57

William Fred Earp
9-16-18
11-24-56

Alma Louise Griffin
7-9-28
2-22-55

Annie Moses
May 18 1929
Jan 27 1950

Howard Burnette
July 5 1903
Feb 3 1959

James Banks 
June 5 1913
Nov 11 1937

William P Baine
June 17 1917
Jan 26 1939

Rosa Bateman
March 19 1906
Nov 4 1937

Jessie Trexler
Nov 10 1908
Sept 26 1936

Hazel Green
Sept 13 1913
April 14 1936

William Cole
Feb 12 1921
April 1 1936

Mattie Oliphant
Jan 15 1900
March 20 1936

Bonner Miller
Died Sept 21 1931

Charles Woodhouse
Died June 17 1930

Julia Kerr
Died Feb 4 1930

Tom Wade 
Died Aug 16 1930

Earl Smith
Died Nov 16 1930

Troy Morgan
Died April 4 1929

Roy Sweet
Died April 6 1929

Connie Soles 
Died April 24 1929

James Carver
Died Nov 5 1929

Canna McGhee
Died Nov 15 1929

Venie Pope
Died Dec 17 1929

Katie Austin
Died Dec 19 1929

Will Hardy
Died April 17 1930

Bobbie Hinton
8-12-40
1-19-55

Hiram Maxwell
Nov 18 1925
March 2 1940

Ella Aydlette
Nov 29 1925
Sept 17 1940


Page 6

Virginia Clark
Dec 27 1923
Nov 15 1940

Ernie Caulder
Sept 19 1923
Feb 23 1942

Garland Hawley
Jan 29 1932
March 12 1942
(Broken Stone)

Merline Stanley
April 30 1927
March 15 1942

Robert Summey
Feb 2 1924
Aug 16 1942

Lester Ward
Aug 23 1922
Sept 15 1942

Martha Broome
April 10 1921
Oct 26 1942

Rossie Bazemore
June 15 1903
April 15 1943

Blanche Earnhardt
Feb 6 1896
June ? 1943
(Broken Stone)

Janie Simpson
Jan 12 1912
Oct 29 1943

Clarence Justice
March 11 1893
March 12 1944

Virla Thomas
Oct 10 1926
Nov 11 1944

Robert Brown
Jan 24 1924
Dec 6 1944

Freddie Jackson
Oct 5 1916
Jan 27 1945

Maxine West
1926
Feb 25 1945

Katie Williams
June 2 1919
April 16 1945

Herman Lee Batts
1911
Nov 13 1945

Vfrnie Smith
Feb 23 1895
Sept 3 1947

Emma Alene Elliott
May 20 1936
Oct 7 1947

Annie Faye Yokeley
June 26 1910
Nov 4 1947

John Barksdale
May 8 1924
Feb 21 1948

William Gordon
1922
Aug 24 1948

Maurice Canady
June 13 1919
Nov 21 1948

Bert Mills Taylor
Sept 16 1928
Dec 18 1949

Leo Mack
1921
10-22-1950

Jimmy Pruitt
6-13-1934
11-24-1950

John C Oliver
6-30-1940
2-9-1951

Gwinn R Wilson
6-30-1908
3-20-1953

Sarah E Dunning
12-16-33
7-24-1952

Charlotte Bowman
8-16-1929
6-28-1952

Charles Dehart
10-1922
5-30-1952

James Young
5-7-1929
2-3-1952

Betty L Hicks
1-29-1936
11-29-1951

Bobby O Wrenn
8-30-1941
8-9-1951

Edward Waters
1911
2-28-1951

Frank Muse 
March 1 1920
Jan 29 1949





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