Mississippi USGenWeb Archives

  Burrus Cemetery
Benoit, Bolivar County

Tombstone Photographs

Location:  Off Hwy 1 South, Benoit.  From the north, take a left (East) at the 4-way stop.  Travel 1-2 miles.  Turn right on gravel road to Burrus property.  Cemetery can be seen from the road, through the trees.  The old Burrus home was built around 1860.

The photographs in this portion of the archives were taken by:
Marsha Chenault (mc)
Chad Washington and submitted by Gene Grimes (cw)


Headstones

(Click on the underlined links to download the tombstone photograph)

Barry
Margaret Louise (Burrus), w/o Thomas Frazier Barry, 1874-1976 (mc)
Bedon
W. Z., CSA, 1837-1180
Burrus
Charles Archibald, s/o J.C. & L.M., 1840-1881  (mc)
Elizabeth, d/o J.C. & L.M., 1841-1865  (mc)
Florence Louisa, d/o J.C. & L.M., 18145-1912  (mc)
George Fearn, s/o J.C. & L.M., 1860-1872  (mc)
Infant s/o Percy & Willie (Lewis) Burras, 1899-1899
John C., h/o Louisa McGehee, 1814-1879  (mc)
John Crawford Burrus, h/o Margaret Anne Burrus - 1847-1928
Louisa (McGehee), w/o John C. Burrus, 1821-1908  (mc)
Margaret Anne, w/o John Crawford Burrus, 1848-1928  (mc)
Percy, s/o J.C. & L.M., 1853-1922  (mc)
Rhodes Estill, s/o J.C. & L.M., 1864-1872  (mc)
Thomas Burrus, s/o W.A. & S.R. - 1864-1914  (mc)

Grimes
Issac O. 1888-1954 (cw)
Ollies D. w/o Isaac 1898-1953 (cw)
Willie Mack s/o Isaac and Ollie Grimes 1938-1988(cw)
Hughes
 Doris Faye (mc)
Jackson
 Nan E. Mason (mc)
Robert Neely (mc)

Lowe
Anne (Patterson), 1928-1983  (mc)
Infant d/o Anne (Patterson) & James B. Lowe, 1954 (mc)

Mason
 James Washington  and Annie Wingfield Mason(mc)
Mays
 Alice Miller(mc)

McGehee
Catherine (Burrus), d/o J.C. & L.M. Burras, 1843-1910  (mc)
Parker
 Florence Terrell (mc)
Dr. James William (mc)

Patterson
Patterson Plot Monument  (mc)
Charles Dudley, 1894-1957  (mc)
Dabney Terrell, 1900-1976  (mc)
George Daniel, 1898-1936  (mc)
George Daniel, Jr., 1927-1973  (mc)
Mary Alice Mays  (mc)
William Daniel, 1947-1953  (mc)
Ray
Andrew Jamieson and Julie Katherine Ray  (mc)

Trelore
 Henry M. (mc)
Mary Brown (mc)
Whatley
Dock Lenord (mc)


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