Mississippi USGenWeb Archives

 Fillingame/Purvis Cemetery
Purvis, Lamar County, MS

Tombstone Photographs



Location:  From Hwy. 11 at Purvis, turn North on Main Street, then turn East onto Williams Street.  go about 1/2 mile to cemetery on right just past the underpass.

The photographs in this portion of the archives were contributed by LaDell Williams (ldw)


Headstones

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

Abney 
Elihu, Infant s/o Dr. Henry Clay Abney & Sarh Slade, 1870-1870  (ldw)
Fillingame
Austin, h/o Mary Jane Anderson, Civil War Casualty, 1829-1862 (ldw)
Elworth, s/o William Henry Fillingame & Martha Catherine Purvis, 1883-1884  (ldw)
Gladys W., w/o Mitchell R. Fillingame, 1905-1965  (ldw)
Hettie K., d/o William Henry Fillingame & Martha Catherine Purvis, 1897-1899  (ldw)
Infant, d/o William Henry Fillingame & Martha Catherine Purvis, b. & d. 1890  (ldw)
Lyman L., s/o William Henry Fillingame & Martha Catherine Purvis, 1887-1900  (ldw)
Martha Catherine (Purvis), w/o William Henry Fillingame, 1862-1948  (ldw)
Mitchell, h/o Gladys W., 1893-1981  (ldw)
William Henry, h/o Martha Catherine Purvis, 1858-1918  (ldw)
Hartfield
Emma J. (Cooper), w/o Rev. Prentis J. Hartfield, 1889-1979  (ldw)
Lonnie N., h/o Lola M., 1918-1995  (ldw)
Rev. Prentis J., h/o Emma J. Cooper, 1892-1976  (ldw)
Purvis
Dolly (Abney), w/o Thomas Melville Purvis, 1826-1910  (ldw) 
Joseph Abney, s/o Thomas Melville Purvis & Dolly Abney, Civil War Casualty, 1845-1865  (ldw)
Thomas Melville, h/o Dolly Abney, 1820-19911  (ldw)


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