George County MsArchives Cemeteries.....Parker Family 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 April 25, 2007, 6:05 pm Abstracted By: Jimmy Trussell Traveling south from Lucedale , Mississippi on Highway 613 south, you will come to Cook's Corner. The main road takes a hard left turn , you will continue strait here to the stop sign (50feet).Take a right hand turn here and go 1.2 miles west where you will come to the intersection with Marshall Smith Road on your left. Take this left hand turn and go 2.2 tenths of a mile to a four way stop. At the four way stop you will continue south( strait) for another .7 tenths of a mile. There will be a large two story shop/house on your right. Turn in this driveway and go .1 tenth of a mile through the clearing. When you reach the wooded area there will be a solitary pecan tree on your left in a clearing and the cemetery is a short walk into the woods in front of you.I walked the cemetery on April 25th, 2007 along with the landowner of the surrounding property (Jimmie Holland), as well as Mr. & Mrs. Vallie Parker. Mrs. Parker is the grand-daughter and great grand- daughter of those buried here. There is a chain link fence surrounding the cemetery and it was in pretty good condition. As you see the last burial here was in 1917. Last Name First Name Middle Name Birth Death Comment -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tanner infant daughter unknown unknown Mrs. (?)(?) Tanner Tanner H. Prestion 07-19-1909 08-08-1909 Tanner Luirzar 06-12-1868 07-28-1909 wife of Alfred Tanner Tanner Menory Ida 03-11-1886 09-06-1900 died of yellow fever Parker Cynthia 08-01-1831 04-14-1896 wife of Josey Parker (married 1857) Parker Josey W 07-08-1836 03-07-1904 Parker J G 09-01-1870 02-26-1912 Pierce Albert 12-26-???? 01-02-1917 infant grave (Bertis & Annie Pierce) Pierce Earnesteen unknown unknown infant grave (slab deteriorated) Pierce unknown infant unknown unknown (slab deteriorated) Additional Comments: Luirzar Tanner died giving birth to H. Prestion Tanner, as you see Prestion only lived a short time.I want to share the inscription that is on the headstone of Luirzar Tanner: "Dear Mother leaves a husband and seven lonely children - as she said - we would miss her. Yes, we miss her - no one knows how lonely the old home is... there were several unmarked graves in the cemetery.... File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ms/george/cemeteries/parkerfa85gcm.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/msfiles/ File size: 3.2 Kb