Payne Cemetery
Old Craft Road (across from City Park)
Olive Branch, MS

Transcribed by Teresa Randall Bransby




There are many unmarked gravesites, broken stones and funeral markers only.


A four-sided obelisk monument inscribed on each side:
William J. Stephenson, Jan 6, 1872 - May 17, 1892
Harriet Stephenson, June 1841 - Jan 18, 1900
"In Loving Memory of our Mother and Brother"
"Lord they are thine and not ours, thou hast not done us wrong"

E. D. Terrel, July 5, 1876 - Jan 4, 1909 (Mason)

Compton Capell, US Army WWII, Jan 15, 1928 - Nov 11, 1993

Gennie M. Myers, Dec 9, 1919 - July 20, 2004, Beloved Mother & Grandmother

Marvin Myers, 1907 - 1976

Bobby Joe Myers, 1953 - 1988

Vera A. Wicks, Jan 12, 1963 - Apr 9, 1993

James Arthur Lyons, Dec 23, 1938 - Feb 26, 2005

Marvin Martez Turner, May 22, 1977 - May 31, 1993 (includes photo)

Johnie Wilson, US Army WWII, 1921 - 1991

Joe Wilson, Jr., US Army WWII, Jan 28, 1926 - Feb 5, 2002


FUNERAL MARKERS ONLY:

Sarah Mae Dean, Jun 10, 1951 - Sept 7, 1999 (Gillespie Funeral Home marker)

Chester Hilliard, Apr 30, 1946 - Sept 1, 2002 (Gillespie Funeral Home marker)

Estella Jackson, July 5, 1922 - Mar 27, 2004 (Gillespie Funeral Home marker)

Deloise Smith, Aug 30, 1953 - Jan 11, 2002 (Gillespie Funeral Home marker)

Kaliyah V. Stevenson, Nov 24, 2004 - Dec 10, 2004 (Gillespie Funeral Home marker)

Junior Wilson, Aug 27, 1923 - Aug 5, 2002 (Gillespie Funeral Home marker)

Otis E. Liggins, 1922 - 1986 (Eddie F. Hayes & Sons Funeral Home marker only)


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