This African American cemetery is
located approximately 2.5 miles south of the town of Artesia on U.S. Highway 45
Alternate, in front of the Holcim cement plant. Surveyed by Russell D. James and
Mike Lowery on 18 December 2003, and donated to the Lowndes Genealogy Website at http://lowndesmsgenealogy.org. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED..
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Unreadable
Stones and unmarked grave photos
New additions, older burials, provided by list from
local funeral home in May 2006.
Deacon Roosevelt Carter, Sr.
25 Dec 1908 - 15 Aug 1965
Gertie B. Sykes
24 May 1926 – 30 Jun 1996
John
Wesley Sykes Sr.
US Army Korea
1925 – 1994
Willie Walker
1 Apr 1909 – 16 Oct 1979
"In Memory Of"
Elsice Ash
1 May 1901 – 11 Dec 1990
"I Love
You"
Michael A. Carter
17 Sep 1970 – 12 Apr 1981
"My Son is
Not Forgotten"
Lena
Carter
12 Nov 1884 – 8 Jul 1980
Mrs.
Annie M. Williams (West Memorial Funeral Home Marker)
02 Feb
1941 - 25 Aug 2005
_____
Williams(Funeral Home Marker Illegible)
Rev.
James Ross
15
Aug 1934 – 18 Oct 1977
"Daddy We Love You"
Mary Lee
Williams
4 Oct 1925 – 19 Nov 1933
"May She Rest in Peace"
George W. Moore
Mississippi SGT Co A 2 Bn
39 Inf 9 Inf
Div Vietnam
3 Dec 1942 – 11 Apr 1968
BSM – PH
Eunice Garvin (Lee Sykes Funeral Home Marker as of Sept.
2006)
1934 – 2003
Willie Joe Jackson, Sr. (Funeral Home Marker)
17 Nov 1926 --
24 June 2002
Mattie
Jackson (Funeral Home Marker from Grenada, MS)
09 May 1936 -
18 May 2005
Mrs. Pyree Hill (wife of Sam Hill)
24 Dec 1924 – 7 Feb
1985
Unreadable
Stone
Carrie Stewart
5 Jun 1899 – 19 Feb 1989
John
Stewart
10 Mar 1899 - 14 Aug 1973
Sis
Hattie Hale
7 May 1930 – 7 May 1998
Bee
Buster Stewart
12 Jun 1921 – 30 Dec 2002
Edmond Carter, Sr.
15 Jun 1932 – 23 Jul 1999
"In God's
Care"
Maggie Lyde Carter
22 Aug 1934 – 15 Dec 2000
"In
God's Care"
Magnolia "Sis" Carter
22 Sept 1907 - Nov. 18
2005
"Sunday School Teacher, Usher & Missionary"
Luerna McGee
2 Mar 1911 – 28 May 1981
"God Has Not
Promised Skies of Blue, Or Days Fair, But He Promised Not
to give us More
Days than We can Bear"
Willie Mae Ireland McGee
May 31 1935 - April 18 2004
"In
Loving Memory of Mother"
Elsia McGee
24 Jun 1902 – 4 Jul 1965
Matilda M. Stallings
25 Jan 1909 – 5 Feb 1990
Keefer Lemond McGee
21 Mar 1975 – 5 Aug 1997
Unreadable Stone, appears to Have Johnson Written on it.
Kiyara R. Jackson-McGee
30 Jul 2003 – 2 Sep 2003
Annie Lee McGee
25 Nov 1909 – 30 Aug 1986
Spanish McGee
24 Apr 1906 – 3 Nov 1975
Spanish McGee
Born 1872
Elsie Bankhead
5 Aug 1965 – 27 Dec 1997
"In Loving
Memory From Father, Stepmother & Children"
C.
Richardson
Died 6 Oct 1913
Age 56 yrs.
Kate
H. Donaby
Died 14 Mar 1980
"At Rest"
Vernon Janie Jennings
17 Nov 1906 – 30 Jun
1982
"Mother"
Charles Larry Jennings
27 Apr 1949 – 19 Sep 1988
R. W. Hale
10 July 1908 - 10 Jan 1998
Willie G. Hale
TEC5 US Army
World War II
24 Dec 1920
– 27 May 1996
Burial mound, no name, could be Lula Hines, since no her
tombstone was not found to photograph.
Lula B. Hines
29 Aug 1907 – 19 Feb
2002
Mollie Young Neal
1900 – 1987
Sam
Hill
US Army
22 Feb 1918 – 14 May 1996
Walter Hill, Sr., Funeral Home Marker as of Sept.
2006
1932-2004
Unreadable Funeral Home Marker between Walter Hill and Sallie
Ash
Sallie Turner Ash
15 Apr 1910 – 19 Dec 1975
Annie Lee Robertson
21 Dec 1938 - 21 Mar 1974
Sam
McGee
22 May 1934 – 24 Mar 2001
"Doodah"
Sarah Rieves Durant
8 May 1936 – 8 Oct 2002
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