George County MsArchives Cemeteries.....Cowart Cemetery - Partial Survey More to Come ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/ms/msfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jimmy trussell carverofwood1260@wmconnect.com December 13, 2007, 7:05 pm Abstracted By: Jimmy Trussell Traveling west on highway 26 out of Benndale, Mississippi you will come to the intersection with Fairley/O'Neal road on your right, there is also a large sign at this intersection "Dirt Pit". Take a right hand turn here and go until you see a sign on the left saying Fairley Loop. Take this left hand turn and go until you see a mailbox on your left with the numbers 203 on it. Just before this mailbox is a woods road to the left. You must get permission from the land owner who lives where the mailbox is to go through this closed gate. The cemetery is at the end of this woods road, about 1/4 mile back into the woods. The cemetery has a chain link fence and is well maintained. The cemetery is an old family cemetery and is maintaind mainly by Mr. Wilie Hunt, who has family buried here.The cemetery was walked by Jimmy Trussell on the 7th of December 2007 and information was taken from all legible temporary grave markers and headstone inscriptions. Last Name First Name Middle Name Birth Death Comment ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fortner Nola unknown unknown Fortner Anthony unknown unknown Fortner Orvie unknown unknown Fortner Emory 06-17-1914 07-31-1990 h/o Ima Fortner Fortner Arvie 03-22-1945 11-25-1964 Fortner Ines Melinda 08-01-1888 01-24-1964 w/o Joseph Fortner Joseph 02-01-1883 11-19-1967 Cuevas Vera Estelle(Fortner) 08-03-1921 06-11-1982 'God is Love' Fortner Eran 1888 unknown Fortner Axum 08-23-1845 unknown Cowart Nancy 1895 1927 Cowart Aaron 05-10-1876 05-05-1961 Wiggins Robert Lee 08-11-1957 10-06-1990 Carter Pearlee 10-24-1921 10-12-1993 Cowart Almeda 08-03-1936 08-07-1995 Rogers Lem 07-31-1903 04-24-1999 h/o Beatrice Rodgers John W 10-05-1856 09-05-1928 Rodgers Caroline 04-08-1871 05-04-1950 Arnold C. Mae (Rogers) 07-31-1907 03-04-2005 w/o Charles david Arnold Charles David 11-15-1884 12-27-1974 'DD', Dentist File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ms/george/cemeteries/cowartce124gcm.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/msfiles/ File size: 3.2 Kb