George County MsArchives Cemeteries.....Merrill 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 27, 2007, 10:48 am Abstracted By: Jimmy Trussell Traveling west on highway 98 by-pass out of Lucedale, Ms. you will come to Holmes Missionary Baptist Church on your right. Directly across from the Church is Merrill road. take Merrill Road and go approximately 3.08 tenths of a mile . You then cross the railroad tracks and continue south another .05 tenths of a mile. Here you will see Merrill cemetery Road on your left. Take this road and go another .05 tenths of a mile (this is a small dirt road),and the cemetery will be onyour right. There are numerous unmarked graves in this cemetery, several are surrounded with small iron fences. This cemetery was walked on March 24th, 2007 by Jimmy Trussell. Last Name First Name Middle Name Birth Death Comment -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sellers Mary E 09-08-1884 02-19-1905 Parmer Martha M 06-29-1828 07-02-1905 McKay Inda B 09-01-1882 11-17-1903 wife of Richmond McKay Taylor Laurens Ira 02-23-1886 01-10-1913 Hight Mary M 12-26-1864 07-24-1906 wife of J.D. Hight Taylor Eva (Dillard) ??-??-1864 01-03-1913 Taylor Walter G 0-05-1897 02-26-1980 SGT US Army WW-1 / WW-2 Brackin Elijah 10-01-1905 05-23-1906 son of J.M. & M. Brackin Taylor John Green 01-30-1849 08-18-1910 Taylor Mrs. V. D. ??-??-1825 ??-??-1910 Taylor Mary J ??-??-1833 ??-??-1910 Taylor Rae Gilbert 07-31-1904 08-27-1909 Taylor Budie Belle 03-12-1888 04-06-1904 Taylor E B 02-22-1857 11-09-1909 Modern Woodsman of the World Monument Beasley John Clide 02-07-1907 07-20-1907 son of A.J. & V.E. Beasley Beasley A J 02-09-1880 01-19-1909 Walters J E 07-11-1888 11-23-1926 Walters Leila 10-17-1910 41 yrs. old / wife of E. Walters Breland Myrtle Ethel 11-01-1902 04-07-1909 Burge George H 03-28-1878 10-15-1911 Knight Vivian (Merrill) 02-16-1911 09-06-1912 Ramsey Mary Evaline (McKinnis) ??-??-???? 10-09-1909 57 yrs. old McKinnis Murdock ??-??-???? ??-??-???? Capt. C.S.A. (civil war veteran) Hobby Henry C 04-22-1873 04-06-1925 husband of L.S. (Bexley) Hobby Hobby Alice (Turner) ??-??-???? 07-17-1911 wife of Henry C. Hobby Moore Drusilla 01-06-1833 12-26-1905 Moore Eugene T 08-07-1857 10-31-1903 Strohecker Dora 12-28-1867 03-15-1946 Murrah Elizebeth 10-15-1848 02-22-1940 Murrah A T 11-08-1834 06-09-1929 an old soldier (possible civil war veteran) Taylor John Wesley unknown 11-25-2007 died in Rochester, N.Y. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ms/george/cemeteries/merrillc57gcm.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/msfiles/ File size: 4.0 Kb