JONES VALLEY (MIMS) CEMETERY (AFRICAN-AMERICAN), Smith County, TX ***************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net 1 Dec 2000 ***************************************************************** Made available to the USGenWeb Archives by the East Texas Genealogical Society, P. O. Box 6967, Tyler, TX 75711 CEMETERY RECORDS OF SMITH COUNTY TEXAS, Volume II, Northwest Quarter, p. 250. Copied 15 March 1983 - Sarah Duncan Beene, Lorene West Conaway, Sally McAdams Garner WALKER, Richandra Letrice - 29 Apr 1976 - (only date) WARD, Mary Lee - 8 Dec 1926 - 4 Jan 1964 PRINGLE, Rev. Robert L. - 9 Jun 1905 - 2 Aug 1973 - "Daddy" CALHOUN, Arch - d. 14 Jul 1974 - 95 years BISHOP, Easton C. - aged 78 yrs. WALKER, Sam - 61 yrs. :DELLEY, John Arthur - 13 Dec 1877 - 1 Sep 1967 :DELLEY, Mary Jane - 19 Nov 1878 - 17 Jun 1960 DELLEY, Rev. F. T. - 1870-1940 SESSION, Finis E. - Tec 5 U.S.Army - 4 Jul 1923 - 20 Jul 1974 ELLIS, Oliver - 3 Jul 1887 - 10 Jan 1974 - 86 yrs STEPHENS, Bertha Patton - 1 Jan 1884 - 28 Jun 1981 - 97 yrs. McKINNEY, One - 1900 - 29 Oct 1977 - 77 yrs. ALDRIDGE, Mr. Bergie - d. 20 May 1967 - aged 78 - (Funeral Home marker) HOUSTON, Ceaugry - 19 Jun 1909 - 14 May 1967 - "Wife & Mother" HOUSTON, Idonia - Nov 1884 - Aug 1936 :LACY, Pearl - died 1939 :LACY, Jesse - died 1953 MIMS, Ossie B. - 6 Dec 1916 - 18 Oct 1968 - "Our beloved mother" MIMS, John - 7 Jul 1900 - 15 Jan 1979 - "Our Beloved Daddy" MIMS, Mary Rainey - 5 Sep 1901 - 18 Feb 1949 - "Mother" MIMS, Elder - Texas Pvt Co A 521 Engineers W.W.I 27 Apr 1894 - 2 Nov 1972 MIMS, Welton - 12 Oct 1945 - 30 Jul 1970 JOHNSON, Henry W. - Husband of Irene - 8 Aug 1881 - 14 Feb 1907 "Porter that got killed on a train - Auntie's only child" DANIELS, John A. - PFC U.S.Army - Korea - 8 Sep 1933 - 18 Apr 1979 DANIELS, Andrew - 12 Aug 1923 - 7 Sep 1979 MOSS, Mrs. Lillie Mae 13 Jun 1913 - 31 May 1982 - age 68 yrs (F.H.marker) :BALLINGER, Cleveland - 9 Nov 1891 - 9 Jun 1951 :BALLINGER, Hulda - 20 Jan 1892 - 23 Nov 1961 PORTER, Will - Texas Pvt Co B 24 Infantry W.W.I 30 Nov 1892 - 23 Dec 1963 JONES, Pete - 14 Jul 1870 - 23 Aug 1961 SIMMONS, Ora M. - 12 Feb 1896 - 16 Jul 1965 O'BANNON, Dora - Mar 1902 - 17 Feb 1980 - 77 yrs (Funeral Home marker) :O'BANNON, Dora - Jan 1897 - (only date) :O'BANNON, Horace 1889 - 4 May 1967 DEAN, Irene J. - 1890-1968 ADAMS, Harry - 21 May 1899 - 30 Mar 1981 - age 81 (Funeral Home Marker) PULLINS, Baby Boy - 10 Aug 1970 - 0 days - (Funeral Home Marker) McKINNEY, Baby LeShanna - died 22 Feb 1968 - 1 day (Funeral Home marker) SIMMONS, Baby Deborah Faye - 1 Apr 1966 - 29 Dec 1967 - 1 yr - (F.H.marker) BAYONNE, Baby girl - 11 Nov 1969 - (Funeral Home marker) SIMMONS, Wylie - 7 Sep 1898 - 12 Jul 1978 - "Husband" GROSS, Mr. Eddie - 1 Aug 1907 - 9 Jul 1971 - (Funeral Home marker) aged 64 MOSS, Ernest - Texas Pvt Co B 509 Engineers W.W.I 5 Jul 1894 - 30 Dec 1969 DICKSON, Mrs. Bennie - d. 2 Jan 1967 - (Funeral Home marker) VASHER, Jimmie Lee - 7 Aug 1910 - 26 Mar 1975 - "Wife" MILLER, Lela - 19 Nov 1886 - 7 Nov 1968 - "Mother" McCOY, Anderson - 1894-1973 - (Funeral Home Marker). Also homemade marker: Bro. Anderson J. McCoy, Jr. - husband brother & friend - 17 Sep 1973 CARPENTER, Otis R. - d. 22 Aug 1969 - (Funeral home marker) JENKINS, Baby Boy - 18 Sep 1974 - 18 Sep 1974 - (Funeral home marker) WILLIAMS, Michelle Antonette - d. 27 Dec 1976 - (Funeral home marker) BUCKNER, Baby - 4 Oct 1969 - (only date) - (Funeral home marker) MITCHELL, Vincent Sherrod - 4 Jan 1970 - (only date) -(F.H. marker) TILLEY, Baby boy - b. & d. 16 Aug 1965 - (Funeral home marker) HOAGE - (nothing more) HOUSE, Mrs. Nancy - d. 13 Oct 1963 - (Funeral home marker) ALEXANDER, Mary - 1889-1959 FITZ, Quia Nitha Sharnai - 11 Nov 1972 - 11 Nov 1972 (Funeral Home mrkr.) FITZ, Ricky D. - died 17 Jan 1950 - (Funeral Home marker) FITZ, Master Thaddeus L. - 26 Jul 1970 - 27 Jul 1970 - 9 hrs. old (F.H.M.) McCULLEY, ______ - d. 29 Jun 195 - 5 mos 2 days (Funeral home marker) SMITH, Nathaniel - d. 11 Mar 1972 - age 59 yrs (Funeral Home marker) SINGLETON, Mr. William - d. 25 Feb 1973 - aged 93 yrs - (F.H.marker) SHELTON, Mrs. Willie - d. 21 Feb 1972 - aged 63 yrs - (F.H.marker) LASATER, Mrs. Fannie - d. 29 Nov 1972 - aged 79 yrs - (F.H.marker) (No stones for the following:)-(info from Mrs. Rosie Mims Daniels) JONES, Frank - (grandfather) MIMS, Mollie Jones MIMS, Horace WHITTIKER, Amy Mims - (died over 60 yrs ago) The cemetery was named after Frank Jones who died around 50 years ago.