Holmes County
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Located 7 miles east of Samson on county road 83 about 1 mile south of Hwy 52
Surveyed 3 Oct 2003 by Wilda Murphy
Left to right, in rows going west to rear of cemetery -
At
the front of the cemetery on the left side:
Holmes, Wauree Gray 17 Aug 1932 5
Jun 2005 Daughter of Clarence & Gladys Watson Gray
[added by Joan Reynolds
on 31 Dec 2010]
Chancy-Savage plot:
Double stone:
Chancy, Bobby D 24 May 1958 3 Jan 2003
Chancy, Tami S 10 Oct 1960 one date
Our children: Robby, Cecilia
Foster, Bobbie L 1929 one date
Plot:
Unmarked adult slab
Lewis, Edna Mae Boggs 8
Nov 1922 16 Feb 1993 (prob. dau of Nellie Gray & Lee Boggs. It has been reported
that Nellie Gray Boggs, dau of A J Gray, Jr, and Mary Valdora Brewer, is also
buried at Leddon, with no marker.)
end plot
McCollough plot, double stone:
McCollough, Joseph Franklin (Buster) 9 Dec
1920 27 July 1999 married Wed., 8 July 1967
McCollough, Fannie Louise 10 Jan
1924 9 Jan 1992
end plot
Cleckler plot , double stone:
Cleckler,
Matthew 14 Nov 1930 29 Dec 1999 husband
Cleckler, Myrtice M 27 Oct 1929 one
date married 21 Aug 1948
end plot
McCormick, Marshall Codie 27 Dec
1982 27 Apr 2003 headstone surveyed 29 Apr 2005
Burch plot,
double stone:
Burch, William B 6 July 1895 2 Jan 1971
Burch, Margaret E
1 Apr 1900 6 Dec 1988
end Burch plot
McDuffie, Mary E 14 July 1929
27 Feb 1992
Smith plot: no graves visible
Whitaker, double
stone:
Whitaker, Wilmer Angus 13 Dec 1923 17 Feb 1995
Whitaker, Addie
Mae 23 Mar 1926 one date
end Whitaker plot
Brannon, Anthony Bryan 27
Oct 1977 born & died inf son of Mr & Mrs Charles E
Smith
plot, double stone:
Smith, Millard A 6 July 1891 19 June 1970 married 20 Oct
1924
Smith, Martha G 6 May 1906 5 Sep 1986
end Smith plot
Paul
plot:
Paul, Max 1 Sep 1919 7 June 1995 RDM2 US Navy WWII
Double
stone:
Paul, James W 29 Aug 1893 28 May 1979
Paul, Vonna D 11 Feb 1897 5
Jan 1983
Paul, Clara 23 Nov 1917 31 Dec 2001
end Paul plot
Cowan plot, double stone:
Cowan, Samuel Leon 5 July 1909 2 Aug 1982 married
5 Jan 1952; (twin to Jesse Leamon Cowan; sons of Samuel Jesse and Ruth McDougald
Cowan.)
Cowan, Cathleen 10 Oct 1929 one date
end Cowan plot
Watson plot:
Double stone:
Watson, Welcome 30 Apr 1911 6 Oct 1982
Watson, Alma 22 May 1906 13 Jan 1992 (reported to be dau of Samuel J & Ruth
Cowan)
Watson, Ricky Paul 15 Aug 1960 17 Oct 1976
end Watson plot
Leddon plot:
Leddon, James Melvin 5 Sep 1929 12 July 1930
son of Mr & Mrs J A Leddon
Double stone:
Leddon, Hattie L 1890 1959
Leddon, John A 1888 1961
Double stone:
Leddon, John Edwin, Sr 18
Feb 1926 one date married Wed., 20 Aug 1947
Leddon, Joyce Allen 25 Mar 1927
one date
Leddon, Sarah L 1884 1969
Leddon, Sarah L 1858 1932
Leddon, Thomas J 1863 1937
end Leddon plot
Unmarked infant slab at
far right end of row.
Trant, Walker Joel 1914 1915
Trant, Finnis Enoch 1916 1917
Trant, Silas Hoye 7 June 1917 one date
Unmarked child slab
Unmarked adult slab
Wise, Willie B 26 Feb 1869 4 Oct
1926 like Tinnie; dates incised on slab
Crews, infant no dates infant of
Claudie & John E
Wise, Tinnie D 24 Jan 1869 16 Apr 1910 like Willie B; dates
incised on slab
Crews, Claudie W 2 Nov 1893 10 Nov 1954
Smith, Charlie W
3 Nov 1874 15 Nov 1922
Unmarked adult slab
Matheny,
John Henry 18 Mar 1927 15 July 1980 PVT US Army WWII
Fortune, Holton C 5 June
1918 one date
Donald - no other name no dates small flat marker, like Joe
Andrews, Mary J 9 Sep 1932 one date
Joe - no other name no dates small flat
marker, like Donald
Unmarked child's grave
Gray plot:
Gray, Billy
Gene 25 Oct 1935 9 July 1953 (Son of Clarence & Gladys Watson Gray.)
Gray,
Clarence D 26 Apr 1910 18 July 2005 (Added by Joan Reynolds on 31 Dec 2010.)
Gray, Gladys W 15 Jun 1913 4 Nov 2003 (Added by Joan Reynolds on 31 Dec 2010.)
end Gray plot
Cowan plot:
Cowan, Jessie Leamon 5 July 1909 30 May
1985 stone identical to John D; (twin to Samuel Leon; sons of Samuel Jessie and
Ruth)
Cowan, John D 1 Apr 1912 30 Mar 1985 stone identical to Jessie Leamon;
(son of Samuel Jessie and Ruth)
Cowan, Ruth McDougald 19 Sep 1874 25 Mar 1959
'She was the sunshine of our home.'
Cowan, Samuel Jessie 22 June 1863 8 Feb
1938 'A loving husband & father and a kind friend to all.'
(son of Polly Ann
Gray & Samuel Cowan)
Unreadable infant stone could be read with a rubbing
Watson, son 24 Dec 1937 one date son of Mr & Mrs John (prob. son of Ollie, dau
of Samuel Jessie and Ruth McDougald, who reportedly married John Watson)
end
Cowan plot
Smith plot:
Smith, Mattie H 1871 1949
Smith, F Danial
(sic) 1866 1913 name & dates incised on slab
Smith, Hozy C 1888 1901 name &
dates incised on slab
end Smith plot
Smith plot:
Unreadable
infant stone could be read with a rubbing
Smith, Willie 1904 1923
end
Smith plot
Brownlee, Sam 3 June 1902 4 July 1980
Brownlee, Annie 22 July 1902 8 Feb 1982
Motley, John H 1905 1984
Motley,
James E 1934 1941
Motley, Franklyn D Jan 1938 Nov 1938
Barton, W E 1900
1918?
Gray plot:
Double stone:
Gray, Dora 13 Apr 1879 13 Sep
1956 (Mary Valdora Brewer)
Gray, A J 'Jack' 4 Mar 1872 4 Feb 1934 (Andrew
Jackson Gray, Jr)
Gray, A J 18 Jan 1836 18 Sep 1908 (Andrew Jackson Gray,
Sr)
Gray, Cleo 20 Mar 1916 29 Oct 1921 (dau of AJ, Jr, and Dora)
Double stone:
Gray, Willie Jackson 17 June 1899 8 May 1984 (son of AJ, Jr,
and Dora)
Gray, Maggie B 8 June 1901 12 July 1985 (maiden name Michaux)
Double stone:
Gray, T E (Gene) 29 Dec 1907 7 July 1989 (Terryl Eugene,
son of AJ, Jr, & Dora)
Gray, Gladys R (Dabney) 15 Sep 1911 24 June 1993
end Gray plot
Haynes plot adjoins Gray plot no visible graves
Fortune plot:
Fortune, Charles T 16 Oct 1912 one date stone
identical to Eugene's
Fortune, Eugene 15 Nov 1909 20 Oct 1976 stone identical
to Charles'
end Fortune plot
Fortune, Louie Don, Sr 30 Aug 1949 12
Apr 1990 SP4 US Army Vietnam
unmarked adult slab
Lord, William J 28 Jan
1891 7 Mar 1917 died at Nogales, Ariz.
Raised slab is broken.
Two unmarked
adult slabs
Fortune plot : (connected to Fortune plot on
Row 11)
Fortune, Ida Lee Feb 1915 Nov 1929
Fortune, Annie Lee 1 Nov 1881
17 Dec 1944
Fortune, Angus 25 Mar 1871 2 May 1957
Fortune, Barney 29 Nov
1906 15 Apr 1984
Fortune, Sara 2 Feb 1913 18 Nov 1970
end Fortune plot
Whitaker, Janes N 22 Nov 1877 27 May 1961 Alabama PVT CO H 2 REGT Ala
Inf Spanish-American War
Whitaker, Gay Nell 1921 1945
Double stone:
Whitaker, Thomas L 23 Feb 1880 14 Nov 1962
Whitaker, Ola Jane 15 Oct
1904 2 May 1984
Motley, Minnie J 1869 1950
Unmarked infant slab
Whitaker, N A no dates CO F 32 GA Inf CSA
Leddon plot:
Leddon, Baby
1899 1901
Green, Rachel 1844 1915
end Leddon plot
Howell, John Wendell 3 June 1943 19 Nov 1944
Leddon plot:
Leddon, Lela Mae 29 Nov 1909 Jan 1911
Leddon, John Edward 30 Sep 1881 17 Mar
1965 (son of Polly Ann Gray and George Washington Leddon, Sr.)
Leddon, Ida
Nettie 23 Nov 1887 6 July 1972 (maiden name Killingsworth)
end Leddon plot
Whitaker, Jerry L 1954 1981
Whitaker, Inez Medley 7 Oct 1933 26 July
1988
Unmarked adult slab
Killingsworth, Mary Frances 3 Mar 1873 29
May 1902 wife of James A Killingsworth
(At the foot of Polly Ann Gray on Row
14.) (According to article on pg 252 of Heritage of Geneva County, she is Mary
Frances Boggs.)
Leddon plot:
Leddon, Malissa Hardwick no dates dau of
OS & TL Leddon
Leddon, Jeff Wilkerson no dates son of OS & TL Leddon
Leddon, two infants no dates sons of OS & TL Leddon; (Oscar, son of Polly Ann
Gray and George Washington Leddon, Sr., married Tyra L)
end Leddon plot
Whitaker, Zora B 13 June 1905 27 Dec 1984
Unmarked adult
slab
Leddon, John A 1832 1863 PVT CO G 54 Ala Inf CSA
Leddon, Jacob W
1839 1862 PVT CO D 4 Ala Inf CSA
Leddon, G W 27 Sep 1842 12 Nov 1928 PVT CO D
54 Ala Inf CSA; (CSA stone has 27 Oct 1842 for birth)
Gray, Pollie Ann 29 Jan
1844 5 Feb 1901 wife of G W Leddon; (dau of Joseph and Mary J Gray)
Unmarked
infant slab
Leddon, Rittie Lee 12 Feb 1896 18 Feb 1896 dau of A R & Laura
Leddon; (Alfred R, son of Polly Ann Gray and George Washington Leddon, Sr.)
Standley, William Curtis 28 May 1897 3 Mar 1901 son of W C and M V Standley
Stanley, Mary V 19 May 1870 25 May 1915 wife of W C Stanley; (Mary Virginia, dau
of Polly Ann Gray and George Washington Leddon, Sr.)
Two unmarked adult slabs
Leddon plot:
Leddon, William Floyd, Jr Aug 1946 one
date son of Floyd & Polly Leddon
Greese, Willine L 20 Oct 1930 23 May 1999
Double stone:
Leddon, William Floyd 20 Mar 1908 12 May 1987 married
10 Aug 1929
(son of John Edward and Ida Nettie Leddon)
Leddon, Polly
McDuffie 6 May 1910 9 Feb 1996
end Leddon plot
Leddon plot:
Leddon, Ralph A 23 Nov 1906 25 Jan 1967 Alabama PFC BTRY B 204 FA BN WWII
Unmarked adult slab
Unmarked infant slab
end Leddon plot
Leddon, G W, Jr 17 Sep 1867 30 May 1911
Liddon, ????? 16 Dec 1908 11 Nov
1915 given name unreadable
Ledden, infant of CW & EE 1 June 1896 2 June 1896
G? W and Effie?
Brooks, Herbert B 2 Apr 1900 9 Feb 1903 son of F F & Mary F
Brooks
This stone is broken and lying on the ground.
Clemmons plot:
Clemmons, Cater J 1890 1959 (Cater Jernigan, son of John J
Clemmons and Fannie C Tate)
Clemmons, Anna B 1886 1950 (Anna Brewer; second
wife of Cater J)
Clemmons, Mattie B 1891 1915 (Mattie Brewer; first wife of
Cater J. Mattie and Anna were sisters. Mattie died in childbirth.)
Clemmons,
Dessie Lee 1915 one date (dau of Cater J and Mattie)
Clemmons, Herbert no
dates (b. abt 1910: 1920 census)
Clemmons, Steve no dates (b. abt 1908: 1930
census)
(Herbert and Steve Calhoun, sons of Anna Brewer and first husband,
Aaron S Calhoun)
Grant, Beulah P 2 Dec 1895 25 Dec 1953 mother; (dau of John
J Clemmons and Fannie C Tate)
Grant, Cleo J 6 Nov 1917 23 May 1945 (son of
Beulah & GW Grant)
Three infants no dates
Clemmons, Dan 10 Apr 1899 21
Dec 1931 son of John J & Fannie Clemmons
Clemmons, Fannie 9 Feb 1867 26 Apr
1933 wife of J J Clemmons; (Maiden name Tate; appears on 1870 census as 9 mo.
old, born in Oct.)
Clemmons, J J 1 Mar 1861 11 Nov 1904 (John J, son of
Jackson Clemmons and Elizabeth Jernigan)
Clemmons, Rufus E 20 Oct 1897 21 Oct
1897 son of J J & F C Clemmons; (Twin brother Walter Lee Clemmons died 29 Apr
1979)
Three or possibly 4 unmarked graves (Reported by Clemmons family
members to be children of John Clemmons' sister who married a Fountain, probably
Annie who married Matthew Fountain).
Fountain, Joe E 1891 1956 (son of
Annie Clemmons and Matthew)
Sewell, Jessie Lee 2 Mar 1949 9 Dec 1956
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