New Morning Star
Winn Parish, LA

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From: Compiled 3-10-1999 by Darrell Winder and Greggory E. Davies

New Morning Star Cemetery

(Go approximately 18 miles west of Winnfield on U. S. Highway 84 to the old
Barnett's Grocery.  Turn left (south) onto Morning Star Road and travel south
approximately two miles, staying left, to New Morning Star Baptist Church and
the cemetery is across the road from the church.  Many, many unmarked and
unlabeled graves exist in the cemetery.  The listings below are in no
particular order.)

In Memory of Governor C. Purvis
10-10-1975

James Allen Purvis
2-7-1868
11-30-1938

Gene Pitts
no dates

William B. Pitts
11-26-1904
12-10-1983

Essie L. Pitts
10-5-1907
3-10-1997

Mary Jane Cunningham
7-12-1892
10-7-1967

James A. Pervis, Jr.
10-30-1893
10-3-1958
Pvt. La. 523 Engr. Serv. Co.
WWI

James Allen, Sr.
2-7-1868
11-30-1938

Odella Harris (Allen?)
1-15-1870
8-4-1957

Sarah V. Carr
1889-1942

Zephie P. Small Perry
9-27-1904
7-14-1974

Perry Edward Small
"Iron Jaw"
9-15-1923
6-5-1989

Martha B. Purvis
2-22-1867
12-24-1926

Mary Purvis
1833
4-29-1923

Children of James & Odella Purvis:
(seven names below on one stone)

Dock
8-8-1896
9-7-1897

Eula
2-25-1895
5-10-1907

Johnny
3-12-1900
11-1900

Baby Unnamed
no dates

Baby Unnamed
no dates

William
4-20-1905
4-20-1905

Wilber
9-12-1912
5-16-1913


Leola County
no dates

John County
La. CK3 USNR WWII
9-24-1924
11-15-1960


Lula Tyson Sykes
8-29-1904
1-14-1990

Pat Brown
12-28-1939
1-7-1972


Lizzie Franklin
no dates

Leroy County
9-25-1971
12-4-1971

Ada G. County
1905-1985

Ella Mae Redmond
4-2-1918
10-26-1980

Overton Smith
5-5-1925
9-28-1979

Jimmy County
4-2-1942
5-25-1980

Kissie Howard
2-12-1880
12-11-1981

Gary County
2-16-1963
7-9-1992

Richard Lee County
2-6-1964
7-9-1992

Luther B. Evans
7-20-1949
3-10-1995

Mitchell G. Evans
12-22-1971
9-30-1988

Eugene Evans
5-16-1928
5-21-1983



Oscar Clarence Evans
8-8-1930
9-20-1972

Anna S. Peats
1893-1980

Charlie (Wyatt?)
1886-1963

R. D. Gibson
Pvt. U. S. Army WW I
3-3-1889
6-6-1981

Henry D. Gipson
8-7-1910
12-30-1980

Lula Purvis
7-12-1878
3-21-1947

Louise Wyatt
1914-1945

Malainda Wyatt
9-24-1871
3-7-1925

Leonard Adams
Pvt. U. S. Army
11-25-1955

McKinley Turner
11-27-1903
8-16-1958

Alex Turner
1898-1957

Ella Turner
9-21-1876
12-21-1963

Alfred Turner
La. Pvt. U. S. Army WW I
7-9-1894
7-15-1967

Helen A. King
1943-1983

Sally Houston
7-4-1856
7-30-1924

Willie C. Wyatt
2-1-1895
3-21-1982

Fedora M. Anthony Jefferson
1936-1986

Carrie Anthony
4-18-1918
9-26-1989

Rena H. Payton
1909-1977

Francis Eva Nobles
(Tennie)
9-18-1920
5-22-1993