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Bobby
Pickle or Ray Cemetery
Recorded
by Greg Green
Location:
The cemetery is located in Monroe County, Mississippi
approximately 5.5 miles from the intersection
of US Highway 17 North and Lamar County Highway
35 (a.k.a. Lost Creek Road). In Mississippi, Lamar
County 35 becomes the Sipsey Fork Road. Approximately
one mile from the state line take a right off
Lost Creek Road onto Beard Road and proceed about
100 yards to the Earl Black Road. Take a right
onto this gravel road and the first and second
roads to left will take you up to the cemetery.
Description:
The Bobby Pickle Cemetery is on a small flat on
the side of a wooded hill. It is thought that
this hill was the site of the home of Robert Pickle.
The cemetery is surrounded by a sort of a U-shape
boundary of hardwoods. Within the confines of
the cemetery fifty-seven graves were inventoried
in the summer of 1996. Of this total, eighteen
were identified with a marker bearing the name
of the person. The remaining graves are marked
with sandstone or brick headstones and foot markers.
Correlation
with Early Inventory: In 1938 the Monroe
County cemeteries were inventoried. In this inventory
there were ten graves listed for the Bobby Pickle
Cemetery. I was able to find seven of the ones
listed in the 1938 inventory. The following is
a list of persons/graves from the 1938 inventory
that could not be located:
1)
Susan Pickle: In the inventory she was list as
having a date of death as August of 1828.
2)
Henry Pickle: In the 1938 inventory he is noted
as not having a tombstone.
3)
Sallie Pickle: In the 1938 inventory she is noted
as not having a tombstone.
Conclusion:
The Bobby Pickle or Ray Cemetery contains the
a total of fifty-seven identifiable (mounded and
marked) graves, of which only eighteen bear the
name of the person buried in the grave. The oldest
grave is most likely the grave of Robert Pickle.
Graves at this cemetery, both known and unknown,
are still decorated on the third Sunday in May,
so it may still be possible to identify some of
the unknown graves.
Comments,
corrections, and information are welcomed.
Greg
Green
125
Meadow Lane
Calhoun,
GA 30701
Inventory
(Complete)
Each
grave is inventoried with a description of its
physical condition, or with the tombstone inscription.
Row
1
#1
Unknown Mounded Sandstone Marker
#2
Unknown Mounded Brick Marker
#3
Unknown Mounded Brick Marker
#4
Unknown Mounded Brick Marker
#5
Unknown Mounded Brick Marker
#6
Unknown Mounded Brick Marker
#7
Sarah E. Pickle: name is the only legible words
on the red sandstone marker.
#8
Unknown Mounded Sandstone Marker
#9
Unknown Mounded Sandstone Marker
#10
Robert Pickle: name is the only legible words
on the sandstone marker.
#11
Unknown Mounded Sandstone Marker
#12
Unknown Mounded Sandstone Marker
#13
Jacob Pickle, husband of S.E. Pickle, Born November
15, 1839 Died December 11, 1899
Foot
marker: Jacob Pickle Pvt. Co. L 24th Regt. Mississippi
Inf. Confederate States Army November 15, 1839
- December 11, 1899
#14
Unknown Mounded (Infant Size) Sandstone Marker
Row
2
#15
Lula Bell May 28, 1911 - December 21, 1993
+
Wilson
#16
George A. December 16, 1903 - July 28, 1990 (headstone)
Foot
marker: George Alonzo Wilson Pvt. US Army World
War II Dec. 16, 1903 - July 28, 1990
#17
Unknown Mounded (Infant Size) Brick Marker
#18
Unknown Mounded (Infant Size) Sandstone Marker
#19
Unknown Mounded (Infant Size) Sandstone Marker
#20
Unknown Mounded Brick Marker
#21
T. A Young November 18, 1877 - November 26, 1904
#22
Unknown Mounded Brick Marker
#23
Unknown Mounded Brick Marker
#24
Unknown Mounded Brick Marker
#25
Unknown Mounded Brick Marker
#26
Unknown Mounded Brick Marker
#27
Unknown Mounded Brick Marker
#28
Unknown Mounded Brick Marker
#29
Unknown Mounded Brick Marker
Row
3
#30
Unknown Mounded Brick Marker
#31
Unknown Mounded (Infant Size) Brick Marker Located
directly at the head of Grave #25.
#32
Unknown Mounded Brick Marker
#33
Unknown Mounded Brick Marker
#34
Unknown Mounded Brick Marker
#35
Unknown Mounded Brick Marker
Row
4
#36
Unknown Mounded Brick Marker
#37
Unknown Mounded Brick Marker
#38
Unknown Mounded Brick Marker
Row
5
#39
Eugene Tate December 29, 1881 - March 27, 1925
#40
Lila Gettis Tate March 10, 1889 - May 26, 1962
#41
James Bryan Tate May 28, 1911 - March 9, 1974
#42
Greely Ray Tate June 17, 1916 - October 23, 1920
#43
James December 22, 1849 - April 19, 1918
+
Tate
#44
Nancy March 1, 1852 - March 11, 1920
#45
T.A. Tate April 6, 1875 - April 19, 1918
#46
Mandy Daisy Tate June 22, 1889 - October 17, 1949
#47
Unknown Mounded Brick Marker
#48
Unknown Mounded Brick Marker
#49
Unknown Mounded Brick Marker
Row
6
#50
Unknown Mounded Brick Marker The brick marker
consist of three bricks in the form of a cross.
#51
Unknown Mounded Brick Marker The brick marker
consist of three bricks in the form of a cross.
#52
Unknown Mounded Brick Marker The brick marker
consist of three bricks in the form of a cross.
#53
Unknown Mounded Brick Marker The brick marker
consist of three bricks in the form of a cross.
#54
J. D. Tate December 16, 1922 - December 24, 1922
#55
A. M. Tate August 7, 1920 - May 14, 1922
#56
Dan December 9, 1897 - February 3, 1978
+
Tate
#57
Zena October 7, 1898 - July 22, 1995
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