George County MsArchives Cemeteries.....St. James 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 23, 2007, 9:12 am Abstracted By: Jimmy Trussell Travel west out of Lucedale, Mississippi on highway 198, you will come to an intersection wih highway 98. Take a left onto highway 98 (going west), and you will go a couple of miles. Here you will see a small store on your right (Carolyn's Grocery), directly across the highway from this grocery store will be Bexley Road South. Turn left on this road and go .4 tenths of a mile and St. James Church and cemetery will be on your right, up a small hill. The cemetery is surrounded by a chain link fence, it is owned and upkeep is provided by this church. There were several unmarked graves in the cemetery. Jimmy Trussell walked the cemetery on the 22nd of December 2007, information was taken from all legible temporary grave markers and headstone inscriptions. Last Name First Name Middle Name Birth Death Comment ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ransom Evan unknown 1955 Campbell Floyd 01-15-1920 08-14-1993 MM2, US Navy, WW-2 Miles Geneva (McGill) 01-10-1885 09-25-1954 Miles Joseph B 1916 1984 Pfc., US Army, WW-2 Miles Robert (Sr.) 09-15-1933 10-05-2001 68 years old Miles Willie E 08-27-1900 11-08-1999 Miles Mrs. Ella Izola 1918 2003 84 years old Hopkins Della (Miles) 04-14-1903 06-27-1944 'Mother' Hopkins Tobe 06-16-1890 07-13-1981 'Father' Stewart Geneva 11-30-1922 04-26-2001 White Lula M 08-02-1921 08-26-1999 White Oscar M 01-10-1925 01-30-2001 Pfc., US Army, WW-2 Prye Mattie unknown 05-26-1953 Underwood Mary (Phillips) 04-02-1905 05-24-1973 Underwood Perry 01-17-1900 05-19-1985 Underwood J P 05-27-1926 02-18-1995 US Marine Corps., WW-2 Underwood Henri Myrtis (Phillips) 05-06-1932 06-14-1997 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ms/george/cemeteries/stjamesc136gcm.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/msfiles/ File size: 2.9 Kb