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Frank Simmons Family Cemetery

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Location	:	Purvis, Lamar County, USA
Description	:	This cemetery is located off of Ray Boone Road on property that was known as "The Old Frank Simmons Farm." Once you get on Ray Boone Road, there is a 90 degree curve just past Ray's old house. About 100 yards past the curve there is a hunting road (trail) to the right. The cemetery is down the trail on the right. Unless someone moved or stole it, there is an arbor over the entrance and there is a wooden rail fence around it. Mack Simmons [deceased, born in 1917], stated that the graves in this cemetery were marked with hand carved... Read More	This cemetery is located off of Ray Boone Road on property that was known as "The Old Frank Simmons Farm." Once you get on Ray Boone Road, there is a 90 degree curve just past Ray's old house. About 100 yards past the curve there is a hunting road (trail) to the right. The cemetery is down the trail on the right. Unless someone moved or stole it, there is an arbor over the entrance and there is a wooden rail fence around it. Mack Simmons [deceased, born in 1917], stated that the graves in this cemetery were marked with hand carved wooden markers and that a woods fire in the 1920s wiped out the cemetery [per a 1980 interview]. Myself [Michele Simmons Lewis] and Leonard Grant Simmons [my paternal uncle] went to the general area where the Old Frank Simmons Farm was known to have been. After talking with some of the elderly local residents a man stated he knew of such a cemetery and took us down Ray Boone Road and pointed into the woods and said, "I remember it being in there somewhere." After approx 45 minutes, Leonard Simmons tripped over a piece of wood. When we examined the wood further we found it to be a partially buried, hand carved, wooden grave marker that also showed signs of fire damage. After searching the area we found 3 such markers as well as bricks that had been used to outline the graves. Leonard Simmons contacted the current owners of the property who did not know about the cemetery. They gave permission to Leonard Simmons to re-mark the graves and to fence in the cemetery. We had looked into moving the remains to Grantham Cemetery where other family members are located but it was cost prohibitive. Leonard has since been back to the cemetery and re-marked the graves, enclosed it with a rail fence and put up a sign stating "Simmons Cemetery." The information of WHO is buried here was gleaned from Mack Simmons and Leonard L. Slade, Sr., both born early enough to have spoken with people with first hand knowledge. The estimated dates were gleaned from Bible records, census records, etc. There are several more people buried out here that have not been identified. The book, "The Complete Book of Lamar County Mississippi Cemeteries," compiled by Elaine Bullock and Stanley W. Arnold, Jr., published by Custom Printing, North Little Rock, AR, 1992, page 468, mistakenly has Eliza Jane Entrekin buried here. She is actually buried in the Pine Grove Baptist Church Cemetery. Her marker reads Eliza Barefoot and she buried next to her husband Elem Troy Barefoot. Both graves are marked. The compilers of the book stated that they got this information from Howard Simmons in Columbia. I have since talked with Howard and the compilers of the book to notify them of the error [it was assumed Eliza was buried here because she too was married to James C. Simmons. However, after his death she remarried].

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