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Gillis Family Cemetery

Transcribed by Lynda Bailey Chandler on February 5, 1999.

This cemetery is located in Perry County, Mississippi off Memorial Church Road.

( white cross) ? ? no engraving--but family said it markes infant of Edd & Lois Garner

Naomi (Garner) ? ? ( infant daughter of Dicey and Pink Garner)

( white cross) (2-26-1937) (8-1937) grave of William Eugene Bailey

died of pneumonia and whooping cough

( white cross) (2-26-1937) (1983) grave of William Gainer"Dub" Bailey died of massive heart attack

( white cross) ? ? unmarked grave of Mary Louise ?(stepdaughter of Will Garner)

* Pink S. Garner 7-21-1900 7-24-1991 mar. 5-18-1929

* Dicey I. Garner 4-14-1911 mar 5-18-1929

Eugene Garner 8-1-1872 2-20-1941 father

Janie E. Garner 10-13-1880 1-8-1960 mother

* Melvin C. Garner 1914 1984

* Avac Garner 1918 1996

Louis Eugene Garner 9-18-1935 4-7-1988 Pvt US Air Force

WWII

* Luther Edd Garner 6-6-1894 12-10-1960 "Daddy was a real man"

footstone-MS PVT 14 Co 162 Depot Brigade WWI

* Lois W. Garner 2-15-1904 3-23-1994 "Mama was a true example of a mother to her boys"

Henry Haskel Garner 3-18-1926 9-1-1943

Cecil Edd Garner 8-18-1930 10-10-1959

white cross ? ? (believed to be grave of Pat Garner--dates unknown--first husband of Maudie Odom Clark)

Maudie Odom Clark 3-26-1909 4-15-1981

Steven Edward Garner 2-3-1964 3-14-1966 (son of Albert & Jeannine McGowan Garner)

Luther V. Garner 1918 1965 (Vernon)

infant Morren 7-23-1914 8-6-1914 infant ? of D.G. & A. Zollie Morren(terribly hard to read--just a guess based on what I think I saw)

John Wesley Morren 1854 1929

Elizabeth Knight Morren 1858 1921

Betty Morren Horn 1897 1922

Flarra Rachel Draughn 12-2-1897 8-21-1990

Albert Simeon Draughn 2-27-1852 1-20-1922 father

Rachael L. Draughn 5-8-1856 2-11-1937 faithful mother

* J.M."Mack" Gillis 7-4-1858. 2-13-1927 father

* Elizabeth Gillis 10-5-1865 4-30-1938 mother

Sarah Gillis 12-19-1838 1-20-1901 grandmother

Dr. Nichols 7-16-1827 2-9-1900

P.B. Nichols 12-12-1837 8-18-1912 wife of Dr. Nichols

Menie Nichols ? ? daughter of W.H. & Margaret Nichols/ no dates listed

John W. Nichols 6-6-1832 8-2-1915

Mrs M. I. Nichols 10-26-1847 9-24-1925

Felix F. Hinton 5-20-1870 11-21-1918

Daniel W. Nichols 6-30-1885 10-16-1942

W.H. & Margaret Nichols 6-11-1804 10-23-1879 (both names were on this one marker--not sure what it means)

( )denotes information supplied by Aunt Mae Bailey and Vivian English)

* denotes double headstone