Hi! Were you in Tremore or Tremont? I noticed one of your ancestors was a Whitley. I am not really researching that family, but my GGGgrandmother, Ann Flurry Carpenter, married Robert or Bob Whitley sometime after her husband, Ellis Carpenter was killed in the Civil War at Murfresboro. I was just wondering if you happened to descend from him? I think he was married first to Sallie, (maiden name unknown), and had several children, then he married Ann, then he married Ellen Whitley, and then he went to the VA home at Beauvoir, and married Margarite Lawson in 1909, and he died in 1916 and is buried at the VA cemetery in Biloxi, MS. I was just wondering if you have found a date of marriage for Robert and Ann, or might know more about them. I live in Jackson Co., MS, (on the coast), and here some of the boy scout troops go in and clean up and repair old cemeteries, in order to acheive merit badges. Of course one of their leaders is a staunch genealogist and cares about those kinds of things. Just thought that might be a possibility, if you know someone in the area that works with the scouts. Nancy Bible ----- Original Message ----- From: <LaDarlaK@aol.com> To: <MSITAWAM-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [MSITAWAM-L] Introduction > Hi, > My name is La Darla Walker Keith. We just returned from a trip to Tenn & MS > to put up some gravestones. My great,great grandfather and great,great > grandmother are buried in Itawamba county, just south of Tremore, in what I > have seen called the Evans-Gilmore Cemetery. It is due south of Tremore on > the east side of the road on the side of a hill. About a 1/4 mile or 1/2 > mile up a dim dirt road from the secondary road. Anyway we placed the new > stones in front of the existing markers, his was only a field stone. Their > names are Richard B. dickinson and Mary Whitley Dickinson. The cemetery is > completely overgrown with at least one fallen tree over graves. It appears > deer hunters have a stand within the graveyard and have been standing it > upright and hunting from it. One of the chain link fences around the Gilmore > graves has been damaged in the last couple of yers and part of it is missing. > The chicken wire fence that was around my ancestor's grave is pretty much > gone (but I think the over 100 year age caused it to deteriorate. Is there > any society which see to such things as old cemeteries? When we were there > in 1989, there were even flowers on the graves and it was in good shape then. > I think we counted over 2 dozen, perhaps more marked graves. > > Thanks, > La Darla > > ______________________________