Saturday, October 28, 2006

Row's funeral announcement

The friends and acquaintances of J. A. Row, are respectfully invited to attend the funeral of his Wife at eleven oclock on Monday July 13th 1891

Procession from residence

Interment at the Wimbish Graveyard

Unmarked graves in Tunica Cemetery

These notes are on a photocopy in my files. They are difficult to interpret.

“From: Mr. Bill Anderson 7/1/87”

Ed Porter Naler, Missouri

His boy Ed Porter, Jr. child swallowed a marble and choked [ that grave and others nearby were covered in concrete and his has a large blue marble embedded; I do not remember whether names and dates were engraved in the concrete; the graves were sunken and breaking open and in the 1950’s "Little Herndon" Reily filled them with river silt and marked the three with cypress crosses, painted white]

Glyn Reed little girl From Cape Gireadeau [sic]

Oral Burch Advance, Missouri

Died abt 1930

Reed, Glyn—little girl

Crosses left to right

Daniel Burks

Helen Clark

La Vern Porter

Ed Porter & Son

Oral Burch

Bellish family notes

This excerpt of a letter from Ms. Patsy Langlois, dated October 26, 2006, contains interesting genealogical information: “On Tuesday, Jackie and I rode up to the cemetery and placed flowers on the Bellish graves…. Jackie’s parents and my father’s parents are buried in one of the church cemeteries and my great grandparents and aunts on my father’s side are buried in Greenoaks in B. R. next to Johhny Bellish’s grave.
Aunt Annie B. Robert in Gonzales will be 90 on 11/15/06. She is still doing very well…. Only Bellish left”.