Wake Forest Cemetery, Leake, MS submitted by: Lucille Copher Boyd ****************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ****************************************************************** Partial Listing In September, 1976 we visited the Wake Forest Cemetery located next to the Pentecostal Church in Thomastown, Leake County, MS. The following headstones were there at that time, but have since been destroyed. On my last visit to the cemetery most of the old headstones had been destroyed and were in a pile covered with weeds. Millecent (spelling as shown on headstone) wife of Edmond Beamon (as spelled on headstone). Born Aug 15, 1803 Died February 26, 1865. Edmond Beamon Born Jan 29, 1796 Died Dec 30, 1823 (or possibly 1832,hard to tell) Jesse B. Ward Born Aug 22, 1874 Died June 30, 1875 Age: 10 mos, 8 days Infant Born Oct 15, 1870 Died Oct 18, 1870 age 3 days Sons of L.B. Ward and N.E. Ward Oliver N. Ward Son of L.B. & N. E. Ward Born March 1, 1872 Died Oct 7, 1875 3 yrs 5 mos & 6 days