The Bearden Family Cemetery, Walthall County, Mississippi Submitted by Carolyn Brumfield Henderson Source: Cemetery Records: Louisiana, Vol. VII, page 5. Documented and compiled by Mrs. Zuma Fendlason Magee and Mrs. Dixie Sylvest Moss, 1980. Contributed by Mrs. Dixie Sylvest Moss. ************************************************ Submitted to the LAGenWeb Archives ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ TIPS FOR SEARCHING RECORDS ON THE INTERNET Netscape & Ms Explorer users: If searching for a particular surname, locality or date while going through the records in the archives or anywhere....try these few steps: 1. Go to the top of the report you are searching. 2. Click on EDIT at the top of your screen. 3. Next click on FIND in the edit menu. 4. When the square pops up, enter what you are looking for in the FIND WHAT ___________blank. 5. Click on DIRECTION __DOWN. 6. And last click on FIND NEXT and continue to click on FIND NEXT until you reach the end of the report. This should highlight the item that you indicated in "find what" every place it appears in the report. You must continue to click on FIND NEXT till you reach the end of the report to see all of the locations of the item indicated. Location: This family cemetery is located in Walthall County, Mississippi in the Dinan Community or what was the Old Symrna Community tht overlapped into Pike and Walthall Counties. A small wagon trail leads from the mail road to it. It is not visible from the main road because of trees. Condition: There is a good wire fence around the ground. Some members of the family clear it of weeds and young trees, cleaning it about once a year. Copied January 3, 1957 by Frank Lewis Brown, Franklinton, La. Willie N. Russell - Dec. 7, 1905 - Aug. 12, 1906 Inez Cary Russell - January 16, 1901 - September 5, 1917 Luther Lee Russell - February 22, 1913 - October 24, 1933 Louis J. Russell - February 27, 1875 - April 14, 1940 Mrs. Cary Needham Holmes Russell - died May 31, 1956 - Aged 75 years (Boon Funeral Home marker - Leland, Miss.) Sandifer - Z. Laura - born November 7, 1856 - died October 31, 1918 Levi - died October 4, 1896 - Aged - 53 yrs. W. L. Sandifer Died October 4, 1898 - Age 53 years Infant daughter of W. J. & Alice Sandifer B & D February 25, 1906 Ray Eugene Bearden - July 21, 1912 - February 21, 1914 E. H. Bearden - born September 17, 1852 - August 17, 1919 Cathern Bearden - born October 13, 1858 - died March 26, 1906 BROTHER - Murray W. Bearden - January 14, 1877 - May 11, 1940 SISTER - Mary E. Bearden - April 18, 1882 - October 30, 1923 Lillie - daug. of H. E. & M. E. Cothern - Born December 13, 1894 - Died October 12, 1895 MOTHER - Minerva J. Stovall, wife of J. W. Bearden - March 12, 1854 - October 19, 1928 J. W. Bearden, son of Jackson and Emily Bearden - Born April 30, 1850 - died February 5, 1904 Infant of J. W. & M. J. Bearden - At Rest Velvah E., daughter of J. W. & M. J. Bearden - Born Jan. 5, 1896 - died Aug. 1, 1899 H. B. Bearden - Born November 28, 1857 - ?59 - died February 12, 1918 A. J. Bearden, son of Jerry Bearden born April 8, 1815 - died January 12, 1864 Emily Sartin, wife of A. J. Bearden born Oct. 12, 1829 - Died Aug. 16, 1902