Geneva County AlArchives Cemeteries.....Purvis Cemetery - Partial Survey More to Come ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Hattie Hamilton hhamil@cyber-south.com August 26, 2005, 1:22 am Abstracted By: Hattie Hamilton Family Cemetery located in small town of Malvern, Geneva Co., AL. This was transcribed Nov. 15, 1998 on a rainy day so I can't be sure the headstones are exactly in line with the survey. Please forgive me. Last Name First Name Middle Name Birth Death Comment -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Purvis Chesley 1800 1866 My GGG-Grandfather Purvis Lydia 1800 1885 My GGG-Grandmother Purvis Greene 10-1-1837 4-23-1860 Faulk Sallie Mae 8-29-1889 9-20-1962 Purvis G. C. 9-20-1884 9-10-1940 Purvis Lillian 12-8-1920 6-2-1930 Purvis Thomas Jasper 8-4-1879 12-29-1927 Purvis Kitty Clyde 11-26-1888 9-21-1973 Purvis Susan Ward 5-1-1847 9-1-1937 Purvis Jesse Benny 4-29-1844 6-11-1921 Purvis Ozella 11-1-1880 12-12-1881 Purvis John F. 7-24-1862 8-15-1897 My G-Grandfather Purvis C. G. 4-22-1866 11-21-1901 McCoy Ola Grantham 3-18-1879 3-3-1907 Creel Pencie C. 11-28-1856 2-14-1930 Creel Annie C. 9-18-1890 6-2-1904 Boyett Manerva 4-20-1871 3-22-1896 Boyett William C. 5-18-1916 8-19-1942 McDonald Joanna Harris 5-17-1940 12-31-1961 Harris Cecil Ford 9-4-1903 4-12-1968 Harris Lola Watford 11-8-1908 12-25-1961 Watford Preston C. 10-16-1880 4-3-1956 Watford Tattie E. 5-25-1888 11-4-1959 Watford Henry M. 9-11-1858 8-3-1938 Watford Thenia Ann 7-7-1857 7-20-1937 Watford Santford 12-29-1890 8-26-1963 Watford Osie 4-11-1896 9-11-1897 Creel Martha 1834 8-22-1894 Creel Solomon A. 8-22-1844 8-22-1925 Confederate Soldier Thomas J. W. 2-15-1874 1-2-1921 Thomas E. J. 8-14-1831 10-31-1918 Thomas Sarah 5-2-1841 7-25-1919 Devane A. H. 1867? ? Jan 1890 Devane Mattie D. or O. 12-3-1863? 4-1-1886 Peacock Prudie Dell No date No date Crawford John Harris 12-29-1926 7-23-1985 WWII Crawford John Morgan 4-21-1891 3-3-1974 Crawford Lessie W. 11-10-1899 12-29-1987 Coe Rhonsa Virginia 10-15-1956 1-22-1996 Ott John Louis 2-21-1922 1-18-1996 Watford Mary H.? 11-24-1900 10-17-1989 Watford Amzie B. 12-17-1888 10-13-1974 Husband of Mary H.? Watford Shefield Charles M. 10-4-1940 11-11-1973 Navy Vietnam Shefield William M. 5-15-1876 3-27-1953 Shefield Henrietta ? 4-1-1883 8-1-1968 Wife of Wm. M. Shefield Hall Carl John 4-8-1921 Creel Loraine Thomas 4-29-1921 Saunders Frederick 7-11-1847 11-15-1917 Saunders Richard 8-1820 5-1896 Saunders Betsie Ann 1-1825 5-22-1901 Wife of Richard Saunders Saunders W. H. 2-16-1868 9-4-1944 Two wives buried with him Saunders Margaret Elizabeth 11-29-1865 5-11-1906 W/o W. H. Saunders Saunders Burmah Herring 5-9-1878 3-30-1951 w/o W. H. Saunders Saunders Laura 11-23-1898 8-12-1900 Saunders John Richard 8-24-1896 11-13-1924 Saunders ? Hopkins 6-29-1913 12-24-1943 Lost on US Destroyer Leary in Atlantic Saunders Marlen Edgar 4-18-1906 8-21-1906 Saunders Infant 7-7-1907 7-7-1907 Saunders Thomas Wyatt 6-25-1908 10-24-1908 Additional Comments: I was there on a rainy day Nov. 15, 1998 and I'm not sure the headstones are exactly in line with the survey so please forgive me. There are unmarked graves there as well. Chesley & Lydia Purvis are my ggg-grandparents. Hattie Purvis Hamilton File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/geneva/cemeteries/purvisce293gcm.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 5.4 Kb