George County MsArchives Cemeteries.....Byrd-Helveston Cemetery - Partial Survey More to Come ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ms/msfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jimmy Trussell carverofwood1260@wmconnect.com September 15, 2008, 12:58 pm Abstracted By: Jimmy Trussell Leaving Lucedale, Mississippi on highway 26 west you will cross over the highway 63 by-pass. Continue west for another 2.3 miles and you will see Central School and the Shady Grove Cemetery. There is a road between them that goes to your left. This road is the Central/Basin road, you will take this road and travel south for 5.7 miles. The Byrd-Helveston Cemetery will be on your left. The cemetery is surrounded by a chain link fence and is in good shape. There were a couple of unmarked graves in this cemetery. The cemetery was walked by Jimmy Trussell on the 11th of December 2007, and information was taken from all legible temporary grave markers and headstone inscriptions. This is a family cemetery and upkeep is done by this family and relatives of others buried here. Last Name First Name Middle Name Birth Death Comment --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cochran Preston A 10-20-1908 12-22-1964 h/o Mary Virginia Cochran Mary Virginia (Byrd) 11-30-1911 05-01-1998 w/o Preston Thompson Ira Wayne 07-13-1933 12-02-2003 h/o Doris Bond Allie Jane (Whittington) 02-27-1869 05-11-1968 Bond Lillian Vermell 08-28-1914 03-25-1957 Helveston Lydia 1856 1928 Helveston James 04-24-1845 01-07-1910 Ratliff Laura E 07-06-1872 10-13-1894 w/o Dr. W.D. Ratliff Ratliff infant 11-12-1905 11-15-1905 i/o Dr. & Mrs. W.D. Ratliff Ratliff Lillie K 08-20-1879 01-06-1906 w/o Dr. W.D. Ratliff Byrd Maggie Eugenia 03-11-1910 06-15-1910 d/o P.M. & S.J. Byrd Byrd Prentis M 1867 1930 h/o Sarah Byrd Sarah J 1869 1947 w/o Prentis Byrd Carolyn D 1933 1940 Byrd P. Murray 1905 1952 Blackmon Velma Christine 03-02-1915 12-06-1962 Lawson J W 01-12-1916 10-18-1900 h/o Eddie Lawson Eddie (Byrd) 12-03-1912 08-08-1982 Byrd Charles M 09-27-1936 11-21-1992 Murrah R D 12-18-1916 06-04-1997 Murrah Carrie (Byrd) 01-03-1896 02-21-1972 Murrah baby unknown unknown Murrah Robert Allen 09-10-1893 01-11-1943 Murrah J D 04-15-1919 06-06-1944 Pvt., Inf., WW-2, PURPLE HEART, Miss. Sinclair Christina Renee' 11-15-1982 10-23-1984 d/o Kathy Sinclair Red Charles 11-24-1924 09-21-2000 h/o Mary Gartman Raymond 1904 1967 h/o Lucile Gartman Lucile 1907 1985 w/o Raymond Howell Jefferson Trent 08-16-1958 04-23-1979 'Trent' Kirkland Betty Jo 06-14-1930 04-18-1995 Byrd Willie Moore 07-23-1900 12-29-1957 h/o Myrtle Lee Byrd Myrtle Lee (Cochran) 07-20-1904 12-07-1974 Byrd James E (Sr.) 09-09-1928 12-30-2001 Cpl., US Army, h/o Rosia Drake Michael Anthony 01-13-1984 02-11-2007 'Beloved Son' Thompson Ira Keith unknown 09-02-2008 50 years old s/o Dot Thompson File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ms/george/cemeteries/byrdhelv128gcm.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/msfiles/ File size: 4.4 Kb