Jud Arrington Collection

Cemeteries

*See also:

Arrington, Jud K., Public Cemeteries of Sumter County, Alabama, 1834-1972, Livingston Press at The University of West Alabama.  Call Number; R 929.5 P96 Alabama Collection

Stegall, Joseph F. & Jud K. Arrington, Sumter County, Alabama Index to Wills and Estates Administrations 1834-1884; Register of Deaths 1881-1892; and Cemetery Records, Heritage Books, Inc.  Call Number; R 929.376141 St325 Alabama Collection

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• Index to public cemeteries of Sumter County, 1834-1972

• Belmnt

• Belmont Cemetery

• Nebo Cemetery

• New Prospect Cemetery 

• Boyd

• Boyd Cemetery

• Brewersville

• Brewersville Community Cemetery at Christian Valley Church

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• Charcone (abandoned town)

  • Charcone Cemetery

• Cuba

  • Clay Memorial Cemetery

• Emelle

  • Central Cemetery

  • Liberty Church or Boney Cemetery

• Epes

  • Henagan Cemetery

  • McInnis or Jones Creek Cemetery

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• Gainesville

• Old Cemetery or Confederate Cemetery

• Odd Fellows

• Gaston

• Old Gaston

• Geiger

• Souls Chapel Cemetery

• Halsell

• Shearon Cemetery

• Lauderdale Springs

• Lauderdale Springs Cemetery

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• Intercourse

• Curl’s Chapel or Chestnut Grove

• Kinterbish

• Beulah Baptist Church

• Livingston

• Myrtlewood Cemetery

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• Oxford

• Oxford Presbyterian Church Cemetery

• Panola

• Shady Grove Church Cemetery

• Providence Baptist Church Cemetery

• Penoba or Millville

• Mt. Herman Cemetery

• Rosser

• Liberty Baptist Church Cemetery

• Reid’s Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery

• Zion Baptist Church Cemetery

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• Shelbyville

• Elizabeth Church Cemetery

• Shorts

• Shorts Baptist Church Cemetery

• Rocky Mount Cemetery

• Siloam

• Siloam Cemetery

• Sumterville

• Methodist Cemetery

• Old Side Cemetery

• Bethel Chapel

• Sydeham (abandoned town)

• Mt. Gilead Baptist Cemetery

• McElroy or Tabernacle Cemetery

• Mt. Moriah

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• Ward

• Cokes Chapel Cemetery

• Warsaw

• Jamestown Cemetery

• York

• York Municipal Cemetery

• York Station Cemetery

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• Armstrong (Choctaw County)

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• Blann Cemetery

• Binnsville Community Cemetery (Binnsville, Kemper Co., MS)

• Binnsville Methodist Cemetery (Binnsville, Kemper Co., MS)

• Blann Cemetery (Rosser – Brunson Community)

• Brightwater Cemetery

• Giles Episcopal Cemetery (Giles, Kemper Co., MS)

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• Cemeteries, Book 1, 1972

• Cemeteries, Book 2, 1972

• Cemeteries, Book 3, 1972

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• “Cemeteries of Sumter County, Alabama and Allied Cemeteries” compiled by Jud K. Arrington

• Part 1

• Bethlehem Cemetery (Edna, AL)

• Center Ridge Church Cemetery (near Milleville, Alabama)

• Mt. Gilead Baptist Cemetery

• Pine Grove Baptist Church

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• Old Churches and Community Cemeteries

• Coody Cemetery

• Gaston Cemetery

• McInnis or Jones Creek Cemetery

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• Family Cemeteries of Sumter County

• Arrington Cemetery

• Ballard Cemetery

• Blann Cemetery

• Brashiers - Wall

• Brown

• Browning

• Burton

• Campbell – Derby

• Childs

• Christopher

• Coats

• Coleman – Carnathan

• Croom

• Curl

• Old Cemetery

• Davidson

• Davis

• Dillard

• Drinkard

• Elliott

• Eskridge

• Estes

• Evans

• Evinston

• Ezelle

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• Cemeteries of Sumter County

• Garber

• Geiger

• Giles

• Graham-Peteet

• Greenless

• Harris

• Hatch

• Haupt

• Hibbler

• Horn

• Houston

• Jarman

• Jemison

• Jenkins

• Jones

• Jones

• Jones

• King

• Knox

• Lacy

• Lee Haven

• Lewis

• Little

• Lockard

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• Cemeteries of Sumter County

• May

• Miller

• Mims

• McCain

• McGrew-Hart

• O’Neal

• Parker

• Pearce

• Peavey

• Phares

• Potts

• Richardson

• Robinson

• Rocky Mount

• Rhyne

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• Cemeteries of Sumter County

• Seale

• Shackleford

• Sibley

• Spratt

• Stanton

• Swilley

• Tate

• Taylor

• Thomas

• Tidmore

• Tinker Road

• Travis

• Wallis-Mellard

• Watkins-Taylor

• Watson

• Watt

• Weir

• Wideman

• Williams-Gibbs

• Winston

• Woodall

• Mt. Lebanon or Woods-Cameron

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• Cemetery Workbooks (Six)

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• “Arrington expert on cemeteries” article by Margaret C. Lyon

• “Cemeteries” tip sheet

• A few loose notes

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• Cemeteries of Choctaw, Green, and Lauderdale County (MS)

• Allen

• Baptist (Choctaw)

• Binnsville Community

• Binnsville Methodist

• Bragg

• Brown

• Chaney

• Christopher’s Chapel

• Clear Creek

• Concord (Choctaw)

• Denton

• Ebenezer Baptist (Choctaw)

• Episcopal (Choctaw)

• Giles Episcopal (Kemper County, MS)

• Hawkins

• Hopewell Baptist

• Lauderdale Springs

• Littlepage

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• Cemeteries of Choctaw, Green, and Lauderdale County (MS)

• Mt. Moriah Church

• Mt. Sterling Baptist (Choctaw)

• Old Methodist (Old Sardis)

• Pearce

• Public

• Salem Baptist (Lauderdale County, MS)

• Shanty Hill

• Smith-Snedecor

• Tisdale

• Turner-Spinks

• Wilcox

• York Station

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• Episcopal Cemetery

• Baptist

• Pushmataha, Choctaw County

• Concord Cemetery (Yantley)

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• Ebenezer Cemetery, Eskridge

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• “Man searches for history in Mississippi Graveyards” article from Meridian Star,  Wednesday, August 9, 1972 including pictures of Friendship Cemetery in Columbus, MS

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• Cemeteries of Kemper County, MS

• Binnsville Methodist Cemetery

• Binnsville Community Cemetery

• Giles Episcopal Cemetery

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• Hopewell Baptist Church, Lavaca, AL

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• Notebook: Family cemeteries, Sumter County, AL, Book no.1, 1972

• Destroyed family cemeteries

• Ballard

• Brashiers-Wall

• Browning

• Burton

• Dillard

• Graham-Peteet

• Greenless

• Houston

• Jenkins

• Jones-Vaughn

• Lacy

• Potts

• Rhyne

• Sibley

• Thomas

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• Confederate Veterans buried in Myrtlewood Cemetery

• Livingston Cemetery

• Myrtlewood Cemetery

• Mt. Pisgah Cemetery (near Melvin, AL)

• Mt. Sterling Baptist Cemetery (Choctaw County, AL)

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• Marengo County Cemeteries - newspaper clippings

• Aimwell

• Arbor

• Arthur Meriweather Lewis

• Barkley

• Beaver Creek Baptist

• Caleb Williams

• Campground

• Chambers

• Cheney

• Davis

• Dayton

• Dixon

• Dunning

• Edward Baptist Family

• Fleming Plantation

• Friendship Baptist

• Goose Creek

• Hampden

• Hoboken Baptist

• Holt Neighborhood

• Jefferson

• Jewish

• Lane Sledge (Spring Hill)

• Lewis Simmons

• Lipscomb

• Lucy Family

• McMillan’s (McKinley)

• McNeill

• Montpelier Presbyterian

• Octagon Baptist

• Old French

• Old Liberty

• Old Spring Hill Church

• O’Neal

• Payne’s Chapel

• Putnam

• Presbyterian’s – Walker Church

• Rawls

• Rembert Hill

• Red Top

• Sharpes (Jefferson)

• Shop or Vick

• St. Michael’s (Faunsdale)

• Strudwick Family at Arcola

• Thomaston

• Torbert

• Union Grove

• Watkins

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• Letter to Rose Marie and Judd from Elizabeth Stegall

• Nebo Cemetery (Bluffport)

• New Cemetery (Cahaba)

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• Old Cemetery (Cahaba)

• Old Memphis (Pickens County)

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• Three notebooks

• Old Cemetery and Community Cemetery

• Arrington, Killian, Kemp, Hill, and assorted relations

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• Burials at Poor House cemetery from Sumter County Death Register

• Letter to Judd from Bill Gilbert about Parker Cemetery

• Old Memphis Cemetery (Pickens County)

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• Research on:

• Bethel

• Brewersville

• Gainesville

• Methodist

• Myrtlewood

• Odd Fellows

• Old or Confederate

• Old Side

• Shady Grove

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Sumter County Public Cemeteries -- Sumter County Family Cemeteries
Listed in one notebook

Cemetery, Salem Baptist Church, Alamucha- Old Town
Lauderdale Co. MS, (348 markers)

Shanty Hill Cemetery (Mt. Hebron, AL)

Smith - Snedecor Cemetery (Mt. Hebron, AL)
Smith – Snedecor – Gordon

Sumter County Public Cemeteries

• Belmont – Belmont Methodist Church

• Bluff Port

o       New Prospect Church

o       Nebo Church

•  Boyd – Boyd Community

•  Brewersville – Brewersville Community at Christian Valley Church

•  Charcone (abandoned town) – Charcone cemetery

•  Cuba – Clay Memorial

•  Emelle

o       Central

o       Liberty Church or Boney

• Epes

o       Henegan

o       McInnis

• Gainesville

o        Old or Confederate

o        Odd Fellows

• Gaston – Gaston
• Geiger or Ivy – Souls Chapel
• Halsell – Shearon
• Intercourse – Curls Chapel or Chestnut Grove
• Kinterbish – Beulah Baptist
• Livingston – Myrtlewood
• Oxford – Oxford Presbyterian Church
• Panola

o       Shady Grove Church

o        Providence Baptist Church

• Penoba or Millville – Mt. Herman
• Rosser

o       Liberty Baptist

o       Reed’s Chapel Methodist

o       Zion Baptist

• Shelbyville – Elizabeth Presbyterian
• Shorts

o       Shorts Baptist

o       Rocky Mount

• Siloam – Siloam Baptist
• Sumterville

o       Methodist

o       Bethel Chapel

o       Old Sides

• Sydenham (abandoned town)

o       Mt. Gilead Baptist Church

o       McElroy or Tabernacle

o       Mt. Moriah (now completely destroyed)

• Ward – Cokes Chapel

• Warsaw – Jamestown

• York

o       York Municipal

o       York Station

Sumter County Family Cemeteries

• Arrington – Woodford

• Ballard – On Sumter farm land at Geiger, near airport

• Blann – Rosser - Brunson Community
• Brashiers-Wall – Moscow
• Brown – Sumterville
• Brown – “Louden” at Sumterville
• Browning – Emelle
• Burton – Payneville
• Campbell – Derby – Frank Derby Home
• Coody – Rosser
• Coats – Hickory Hill
• Croom – Frank Derby Home
• Curl – Intercourse
• Davis – Across River From McCainville
• Denton – 4 miles east of Geiger
• Dillard – Geiger – now destroyed
• Holiness Cemetery – hickory Hill
• Elliott – Payneville
• Eskridge – 1 mile west of Gainesville, Epes Wye (road)
• Estes – 3 miles out River Road from Epes
• Evans – Kinterbish
• Garber – Livingston Industrial Park (South)
• Geiger – Intersection Panola Road & Hwy 17
• Giles – Cuba
• Graham - Peteet – Chestnut Grove or Intercourse
• Greenless – Payneville
• Harris –Dove
• Hatch – Geiger
• Haupt – McDowell
• Hawkins – Hwy 21, 3½ miles South of Epes
• Hibbler – ½ mile East of Hwy 17 on Panola road
• Horn – Horns Bridge on Sucarnoochee River
• Houston – On AGS Railroad North of Livingston, Near Parkers
• Jarman – Brunson
• Jemison – NE ¼ of Sec. 36, TS 18 N, R4W
• Jenkins – NW ¼ of Sec. 13, TS 18 N, R3W
• Jones – Hagerman Farm
• Jones – Emelle
• Jones – Sec 36, TS 22 N, R4W
• King – Woodford
• Knox – Site of Original Elizabeth Church * See Billy Rumley
• Lacy – A.G. Boyd Pasture, only 2 graves
• Lilita – Lilita
• Lewis – Hwy 21, 3 miles South of Epes
• Little – Panola
• McCain – McCainville
• McGrew - Hart – Rooster Bridge at Moscow
• May – may Hill, Between Coatopa & Elmont
• May – Epes
• Miller – Miller Hill Baptist Church
• Mims – Horns Bridge Road
• O’Neal – Gainesville
• Parker – Sec. 7, TS 19N, R3W
• Parker – Coatopa
• Patton – Lee Haven (#43 in notebook)
• Pearce – Whitfield
• Peavy – Cuba
• Phares – Upper Road - Dr. Hester Circle
• Potts – Livingston
• Richardson – Sec. 23, TS 21 N, R2W
• Rhyne – Sec. 15. TS 19N
• Seale – Sec. 21, TS 16 N, R2W
• Shackelford – Coleman Place
• Sibley – Sec. 11, TS 22N, R3W
• Spratt – Sec. 6, TS 19N, R3W
• Swilley – Sec. 20, TS 21 N, R1W
• Tate – Scratch Hill Community
• Taylor – Hester Circle
• Thomas – Payneville
• Tidmore – Hickory Hill
• Tisdale – York – Now Destroyed
• Travis – Sec. 12, TS 19 N, R3W
• Vaughn – Curl
• Wallace - Mellard – NW ¼ of Sec. 24, TS 19 N, R3W
• Watkins - Taylor – China Bluff on Tombigbee River
• Watson – Dr. Hester Circle - Upper Road