Greene County MsArchives Cemeteries.....Cooley Cemetery, Greene County, Mississippi - Complete Survey ************************************************ 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 13, 2007, 1:24 pm Abstracted By: Jimmy Trussell Traveling south from Leakesville, Mississippi on highway 63 you will go 2.3tenths of a mile. This will be the intersection with Vernal River Road, take this right hand (west) turn and go 10.4 miles. On the right will be the John Kittrell home, the cemetery is located on property behind his home. Mr. Kittrll maintains a small woods road and a turn around at the cemetery.You take the small woods road 1.2 tenths of a mile and when the road ends the tombstones will be visible on your left. The last burial in this cemetery was in the year 1880. The cemetery is grown up in bushes, however, the corner posts of the long gone fence that once surrounded the cemetery are still visible.The cemetery was walked on April 13th by Jimmy Trussell and John Kittrell, information was gathered from the headstone inscriptions. Last Name First Name Middle Name Birth Death Comment ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cooley Kinchen ??-??-1780 07-??-1858 son of John cooley Cooley Elizabeth ??-??-1780 ??-??-1830 Pipkins Sarene Rennie (Cooley) ??-??-1838 04-??-1880 wife of Lewis Pipkins who is buried at Cross Roads Methodist Church, George County, Ms. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ms/greene/cemeteries/cooleyce72gcm.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/msfiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb