This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: longlocks Surnames: Shanahan, Potter, Boone, Phillips, Freeze, Scott, Carlock Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.evans/9803.1.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Jenny, I have a connection to your EVANS family. Not a blood connection but nonetheless I'm thrilled to find your posting and I can help you with where your John Wesley Evans is buried because I know where the Old Carolina Church cemetery in Senatobia is :-) Directions to the Old Carolina Cemetery: >From Memphis, TN Take I-240 S towards Jackson, MS. Take I-55 S Exit #25A towards Jackson, MS. Take the MS-4 Exit #265 toward Senatobia/Holly Springs Turn Left on MS-4. Go 3.9 miles to Carolina Grove Subdivision. The old Caolina Church is long gone. The tombstones are in a grove of oaks to the immediate left once you go through the subdivision gates. There is no fence or anything around the tombstones (but someone cares for the tombstones, periodically cutting grass, raking leaves, placing flowers, etc.) View a photo of the spot at: http://home.att.net/~shanahanfamilygenealogy/carolina_cemetery.jpg My family website: http://home.att.net/~littlehouseantiques/home.html dedicated to my ggGrandfather Michael William Shanahan, an Irish born immigrant who converted from his Catholic faith and was baptised at the Carolina Church 17 May 1868. The gal Michael married (Sallie Margaret Potter) was the daughter of Daniel D. Potter (who was the baptist pastor who founded the church and who is also buried there). The witness/bondsman on Michael and Sallie's marriage license was none other than William J. Hudgens the son-in-law of your John Wesley Evans. John's daughter Martha Elizabeth EVANs married William J. Hudgens on 11 Sep 1867 in DeSoto Co MS. I have the census records for Martha Elizabeth Evans Hudgens from 1870 and onwards if you are interested at all in them. Martha Elizabeth Hudgens nee EVANS lived very close by to Michael and Sallie in 1870 and was still in the area in 1880 but by 1900 she'd moved to Greenville in Clark Co Arkansas with her two sons Samuel Rob Hudgens and William C. Hudgens. Samuel married and had kids but it appears ! that William C. Hudgens may not have ever married/had offspring. AND I was recently contacted by a gal who just bought a house in the new subdivision - she forwarded to me photos of all the tombstones in the cemetery. I've got to look these up but if your John Wesley Evans was buried there I'll have a photo I can share with you. I used Ancestry.com's contact service to email you (and gave my direct email address in that) but if for some reason you don't get that please contact me at LittleHouseAntiques@att.net. Kathy P.S. There is a transcription that has been done (long long ago) of the Cemetery; I don't have the entire thing but I know a gal down in Senatobia who should be able to get it for us (if it should turn out that I can't find those tombstone photos) Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.