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New Hope Advent Christian Church

*Partial* listing of names of people buried in the New Hope Advent Christian Church cemetery near Bell, Gilchrist Co., FL (CR236, just west of US129). Submitted by Jennifer Wright (jennifer@leading.net)

Grouped by surname (given names are not alphabetized). Where death dates are not inscribed, a <> appears. Names paired together without a blank line between them indicate a double/multiple marker. Genealogical data from markers appear in (), while my own remarks are numbered in []. Inscriptions other than names, dates and the additional data mentioned above are not included within.

DYAL, Irvin D.  5 Oct 1885 - 2 Aug 1932
DYAL, Nannie  21 Jan 1888 - 3 Mar 1920  [1]

DYAL, Leon  21 Jun 1915 - 10 Feb 1917  (son of I.D. & Nannie Dyal)

DYAL, Ezel  6 Apr 1918 - 22 Mar 1920  (son of Nannie & I.D. Dyal)

LEE, Elizabeth A.  1833 - 1909  "Grandmother" [2]

SHEPHERD, Nola L.  28 Jan 1895 - 24 Oct 1918  [3]

SIMMONS, "AB" Azamon  24 Jul 1854 - 18 Mar 1915  [4]
SIMMONS, Martha Abbot  2 May 1854 - 5 Aug 1944  [5]

SIMMONS, Ambose 21 Jun 1891 - 19 Jun 1919  [6]

SIMMONS, Jettie L.  23 Jan 1903 - 23 Feb 1989  [7]
SIMMONS, Hubert W.  5 Nov 1887 - 6 Aug 1963  [8]
SIMMONS, Hattie A.  29 Mar 1891 - 29 Nov 1918  [9]

SIMMONS, Willard S.  14 Aug 1911 - 24 Aug 1922

SIMMONS, Patricia D.  16 Aug 1951 - 24 Feb 1968

SIMMONS, Elsie  3 Apr 1909 - 19 Jun 1935

SIMMONS, Marie C. 20 Dec 1921 - 30 Aug 1942 (and baby)

WATERS, Hoyatt A.  6 Sep 1912 - 4 May 1945

WATERS, Martha E.  23 Jul 1878 - 2 Feb 1955  [10]
WATERS, G. Jeff  11 Feb 1875 - 19 May 1921  [11]

WATERS, Samuel Bell  17 Aug 1909 - 19 Apr 1992
WATERS, Bertha K.  24 May 1920 - <>

WATERS, Floyd Emanual  20 Dec 1906 - Jul 1946

WATERS, Minor Thomas  24 Jul 1864 - 12 Oct 1928

WHITE, Henry  [12]

WHITFIELD, Gharod  1906 - 1993
WHITFIELD, Pearl M. 1910 - <> (wife of Gharod, married 1936)

WHITFIELD, Alex Pirela  1960 - 1961

WHITFIELD, Helen B.  1908 - 1908

WHITFIELD, Lakeland Lee  Jul 1905 - Aug 1911

WHITFIELD, Thomas L.  1853 - 1899  [13]
WHITFIELD, Florence J.  1862 - 1953  "Mother" [14]

WHITFIELD, Janie Elizabeth  5 Sep 1887 - 20 Aug 1949
WHITFIELD, Herbert May  1 May 1886 - 10 Aug 1962

 [1]    nee Nannia Viola Simmons, dau. of AB & Martha Simmons, family bible says she died of influenza
 [2]    mother of Florence J. Whitfield
 [3]    nee Nola Lilian SIMMONS, wife of G.W. Shepherd, dau. of AB & Martha Simmons
 [4]    aka Azmon/Asmond Bell Simmons, son of Samuel B. Simmons & Martha J. Whitfield
 [5]    nee Martha Susan Abbott, dau. of James Abbott & Susan Melton,  wife of AB Simmons
 [6]    aka Ambrose or Ambrous, son of AB & Martha Simmons, family bible says he died of influenza
 [7]    2nd wife of Hubert W. Simmons
 [8]    aka William H. Simmons, son of AB & Martha Simmons
 [9]    1st wife of Hubert W. Simmons,  family bible says she died in childbirth
[10]    dau. of AB & Martha Simmons
[11]    family bible says he died of pneumonia
[12]    no dates, may be nephew of AB Simmons (1900 census)
[13]    son of Thomas L.W. Whitfield, 1st cousin of AB Simmons
[14]    nee Florence J. Lee