Old Gauley Transcriptions

Copied on 5/26/03 by Lura Kauffman, l.kauffman@mchsi.com
Granddaughter of Jim Hastings and Tezzie Goodson of Calhoun County   

Duel Lathen Cantrell    6/9/1918 - 6/8/1920

Mrs. W.F. Parker 1861-1927

Sarah F. Mitchell 1855-1935

Ruben Polk Mitchell 8/13/1845- 1/15/1918

Tellie Mitchell 11/30/1885 - 9/14/1921

Myrtle Parker 12/16/1905 - 9/9/1923

John Earl Hill 8/23/1942 - 8/23/1942, on of William Otho Hill & Lillian Avie Cantrell

Jimmie Mae Dau. of Jim & Ethel Lee 1/3/1919 - 11/29/1939

James F. Lee Pvt 1st MS Field Arty N.G., Died 7/5/1942, B. E. O'Quinn Funeral Home, Parkin, Arkansas Age 49 years 10 months 18 days

Lillie Z. Lee 1890-1915

Velma L. Harrelson 1912-1930

Vernon Lee 1911-1947

Winnie Lee Wife of Shelby D. Lee 1/7/1903 - 4/24/1934

Charley Doyle Lee Mississippi Sgt. 138 QM Service Co , WWII, Korea, 12/14/1919 - 11/21/1954

Lee, Clara Mae Daughter of G.C. & E. Lee 12/5/1911 - 7/4/1912

Sandstone {unknown grave}

Shelby D. Lee MS Pvt 28 Inf. 1st Div 11/13/1931

S.C. Lee 2/2/1855 - 2/3/1930

Lee, D.A. wife of S.C. Lee 10/3/1857 -2/15/1940

Dee Cozart 2/5/1876 - 4/15/1928, male - inscription "He has..."

Mattie J. Cozart 9/24/1881 - 9/2/1901

William Cozart Co F 2nd MS Partisan Rangers CSA

Sara Vester Wife of J.H. Parker 12/1/1884 - 6/11/1932

Parker, Claude J. 3/8/1906 5/13/1907 {one marker}

Parker, Euvie 3/10/1908 3/17/1908 daughters of J.H. & S.O. Parker

Our baby John Helmer 8/24/1933 - 1/16/1936, newer marker

Little John Helmer Age 2 years 6 months 21 days Died Jan. 16, 1936 {old homemade marker}

James L. Berry MS Pvt U.S. Army , 7/18/1933

Maudie Whitworth Goodson 1896-1921

Small concrete marker with etched cross - Mary Elizabeth Smith Sims 4/8/1876 - 2/21/1958, First wife of Sam Gholson Sims - Pryor Funeral Home Records

Sam G. Sims 5/29/1863 - 9/30/1940

Daylilies outline - Charlie Howard Keenum - son of Joseph Savannah "Vanner" and Annie Bell Keenum, {Information from Annie V. Keenum Murphree - sister. Once had a tent of tin as a coverning, when the braces fell, tin left on ground, just north of Sammie Sims grave near the large tree at the roadside fence.}

J.L. Smith 10/24/1892 - 9/29/1917

Jessye Wayne Goodson 12/4/1926 - 12/4/1926

Cicero Goodson 1/7/1876 - 6/27/1913, Family Records: brother of Tezzie Goodson; he died of burst appendix

Blank pink granite marker - Sammie Sims Smith 12/5/1900 - 8/18/1938
Wife of Earnest Smith, Daughter of Sam G. Sims, Pryor Funeral Home Records - MS Death Certificate

William C. Cozart 1872-1946

Ruby Myrtle Daughter of R.E. & A.L. Lee 4/30/1902 - 10/16/1903

Leather 11/26/1906 - 10/8/1907, one marker

Cozart, Mittie Odell 7/19/1914 - 2/11/1915, children of W.C. & C.O. Cozart

Hellums, Lillie Tott Daughter of W.E. & Alice Hellums 10/5/1902 - 10/5/1906

Parker, Bessie Daughter of J.F. & N.C. Parker 11/29/1894 - 11/19/1908

W. Dee Cook 1882-1910

Cook, Mattie Wife of W.J. Cook 12/16/1857 - 2/27/1896

Moutry, Martha Fay Infant of Fate & Goldie Moutry 1/17/1927 - 1/22/1927

W.C. B. Byars Co F 29th MS Inf CSA

Caldwell, Eliza Jane Wife of L.R. Caldwell 2/5/1872 - 1/13/1910

W.J. Patterson 4/10/1841 - 11/27/1918

Patterson, Susan V. Daughter of E.B. Garner & wife of W. J. Patterson 10/11/1840 - 2/3/1896

Cozart, Lilly May 12/19/1899 - 9/15/1900 {one marker}

Cozart, Infant son 1/13/1898 - 2/19/1898 Children of W.T. & Effie Cozart

W.B. Keeton 2/15/1849 - 6/1/1939, Pryor Funeral Home marker

Beadie Ruth Parker Baker 5/29/1911 - 7/26/1935, Family Records: killed accidentally when she fell off the back of a truck driven by her husband; she was on her way to Tezzie and Jim Hastings home to sew clothes for her children

W.C. Parker [Carlos] 1885-1930, Family Records: father of Beadie Ruth Parker Baker

Brooks, N. V. Wife of C. P. Brooks Died July 3, 1905 Aged 36 years

Carlisle, W. N. Co I 37 Regt Ala. Inf CSA, 9/5/1835 - 8/3/1910

Griffin, Fannie Wife of J. G. Griffin 1/7/1879 - 4/14/1923, "Holman's Mother"

White marker - J. E. V.

White marker - N. A. V.

White marble footstone - E. J. C.

Four older headstone and footstone concrete blocks at entrance - no markings

Two infants of Ray and Winnie Sims Goodson - unmarked {Information from Curtis Bryant}

Frances Elizabeth Caldwell, Wife of James Caldwell, Daughter of Clayborn Patterson
Born Dec 12 1837 Died June 21, 1923 - MS Death Certificate # 9827

Victoria Berry McDonald - Monitor Herald Nov. 24 1932 obituary - Mother of James Berry,
Information from Clarice & Clyde Goodson papers dated September 1987:

Family of Willis Keeton: Bobbie Keeton (wife)

Emma Keeton (daughter)

Veselee Keeton (daughter)Child of 11 or 12 years old

Family of William "Bill" Fondern William Fondern

Henritta Fondern (wife)

George Fondern (son)Esquire Fondern (son)Paralee Fondern Ellenburg (daughter)Frank Ellenburg

Other Unmarked Graves:

Fannie Strickland, housekeeper for Eusie Griffin (?)

2 or 3 stillborn babies of William and Emma Fondern'sStillborn baby of Thomas & Rosa Boswell, a Tennessee couple

Stillborn baby of Ernest & Sammie Smith

2 Caldwell ladies

Several other unmarked graves