Elaine, While I cannot help you with photos, here is some helpful info: If little 5-yr old Francis Poythress was buried in Meridian, Mississippi, he was probably buried in either Magnolia Cemetery or Rose Hill Cemetery. I know that Rose Hill Cemetery is where James Speed Poythress & his wife Mattie, or Martha Grice are buried, though I haven't seen their graves. There are books available that lists burials in each of those cemeteries. They are published in Meridian by: Lauderdale County [Mississippi] Dept of Archives & History [LCDAH] Hours: 8am - 5pm, Mondays thru Fridays Phone 601-482-9752 Street Location: Courthouse Annex, 2nd floor; 410 Constitution Av. Mailing address: P.O. Box 5511 Meridian, Mississippi 39302-5511 LCDAH is an organization that is part publicly funded & part supported by "membership" donations, which I think costs about $15 per year or so. For that, one gets their Newsletter at least once a year, and their periodically-updated list of their extensive books available (all of which are very reasonably priced). If you call them at the above number, I'm sure they'll be glad to mail you their publication list. And if you are in Meridian (or know someone there who you can ask to go there for you), you can sit & browse thru their books & take notes or pay for photocopies. LCDAH's books that I recall covered those cemeteries were done from the cemeteries' records, so the books include more burials than just the ones that have gravemarkers. In case you aren't aware: Many cemetery plots contain graves without markers. Cemetery records generally show at least the date of burial & the other individuals buried in the same plot; some even show more info, such as the funeral home, age of deceased, etc. I gladly support such organizations, and encourage others to do so, too, because their volunteers who abstract the info from old records, wanted by so many of us researchers, put in quite a lot of work year after year. Their self-publishing and their "membership" donations are essential to keep such good work going. Cheers, Barbara = = = = First I would like to tell you, the Poythress Book I took to the reunion, was a huge success. Thank you all for making me look so good. It was because of all your hard work and wonderful discoveries on the Poythress' that it was such a success. I am indebted to you all. Second I would like to know if anyone has pictures of any Grave Markers of the Thomas and Martha (Patsy) Poythress descendants, Lewis and Patsy or Rebecca descendants, David and Mary or Sally line and James Speed Poythress and Mattie line. I have the one of James S. and Mattie. I would also need to know where these graves are located. I would like to include them in my book and I would be happy to pay for having copies made. I took pictures of all the Carl Hutton Poythress family graves and would be happy to send copies to anyone interested. I did not get one of Francis Poythress grave, he is buried in Meridian, MS somewhere, I am working on finding him. He was the son of Carl and Pearl who died at 5 years old. They were still living in Meridian at the time, the rest are buried in Laurel, MS, except my mother Sue Caroll is buried in Jackson, MS. As always any help would be appreciated. Elaine ==== POYTHRESS Mailing List ==== Poythress Geneaology Research Web http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~poythress/ ----------------------- Internet Header -------------------------------- Sender: [email protected] Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [207.40.200.41]) by siaag1af.compuserve.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/SUN-1.14) with ESMTP id PAA05513; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 15:47:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from [email protected]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.4/8.12.4) id g7LJkYXU012117; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:46:34 -0600 Resent-Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:46:34 -0600 X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Wed Aug 21 13:46:34 2002 From: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 15:46:34 EDT Subject: Photo Request Old-To: [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 118 Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/3763 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected]