MT. PLEASANT CEMETERY
Compiled and contributed by David Donahue
This cemetery is located at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church, a small stone church on Lyons View Drive which serves a black congregation. A plaque on the building reads:
Rebuilt 1943
J. G. Nance
G. W. Wesley
A. H. Smith
Wm. Barton
Wm. Buchanan
Deacons
Rev. D. C. Cole Pastor
Some of these family names also appear in the cemetery adjoining the church. The cemetery is no longer used (the last burial was in 1971) and is in poor condition. Maintenance is limited to grass cutting. Many graves are sunken. About 25 percent of the area along the south side has been allowed to revert to brush. In the summer it is almost impossible to see the markers within this area. Probably only about 30 percent of all graves here have readable markers. This cemetery was recorded March 25, 1989, and checked on September 23, 1989. Rechecked January 19, 1997.
Abernathy, Louis, 4/14/1849-1/8/1917, "Age 89" "Father"
Badget, Thomas, d. 1/1/1892, "Aged 62 Years"
Badgette, Harriett, d. 4/9/1899, "Age 66 Years" [adjacent to marker for Thomas Badget] (fallen)
Banks, Gertrude Hodge, 1893-1945, "Mother" (fallen)
Bartley, Samuel, 8/30/1877-6/18/1900
Bearden, Eliza [see Walker, Eliza Bearden]
Buck, May, d. 6/17/1892, "Aged 89 Years" "Father"
Buchanan, William, 1868-1960\Buchanan, Fannie, 1876-1961
Buckner, M. Demetrius, d. 12/4/1967, temporary marker, Reed's Mortuary; loose, does not mark grave position
Buckner, Wm., d/7/1/1892, "Age 57 Years"
Burke, Belle, 1874
Burke, Charles, Jr. 1897
Burke, Charles, Sr., 1854-1926\Burke, Mamie, 1884-1910\Burke, Walter, 1877
Burke, Charles C., 11/26/1892-5/6/1971 (fallen) [Note: The Burke group above was formerly in a fenced area. The fence is gone. The main stone in the group has fallen face down into a large sunken area. The graves are hidden in brush in the southeastern part of the cemetery. They cannot be seen at all in late summer. I could not get to these to check them in September 1989.]
Burke, Dora [see Smith, Dora Burke]
Burke, Elizabeth [see Wesley, Elizabeth Burke]
Burke, Maria, 9/23/1860-5/5/1897, "Wife of Hardy Burke"
Carter, Annie R., 5/17/1896-4/21/1955
Carter, Margret, no dates, "Mother"
Clark, Kittle, 10/12/1860-11/16/1906, "My Sister" [sister of G. H. Greenway???]
Cox, Alpha Ann, 10/26/1846-4/29/1912, "Wife of Lafayette Cox"
Cox, Emmaline B., 1/13/1871-6/1/1931, "Mother"
Crawford, Nora, d. 9/23/1905, "Age 1 Year" (fallen)
Crump, Texana, d. 9/28/1911, "Age 63 Years" "Wife of Grundy Crump"
Crump, _____, "Sergt," military marker (unreadable; sunken into the ground)
Davis, Emanuel, 1886-1929
Davis, Gilbert, 3/26/1879-7/9/1922
Davis, Martha, 7/6/1869-12/30/1964
Davis, Russell, 1848-1926
Farmer, Lydia J., 4/22/1875-3/2/1931
Greenway, G. H., 1865-1922, "Father"
Greenway, Harim Sackston, 8/1/1888-3/19/1923
Griffin, Eliza, no dates [hidden in brush]
Griffin, Manda, no dates [hidden in brush]
Hall, Susie, d. 8/1893 (homemade)
Hamby, Minnie, 12/13/1823-5/23/1886, "Daughter of T. R. Hamby" [very eroded]
Hamilton, Maud Wesley, 5/11/1899-9/19/1925
Hodge, Gertrude [see Banks, Gertrude Hodge]
Hodge, John, d. 8/2/1923, "Age 47 Years" "In loving remembrance of our dear husband and father" (fallen)
Johnson, Alla, 1895-1909
Johnson, Alice, 1856-1905
Johnson, Hiram, 1850-1942
Johnson, Malinda, 2/16/1937 [in brambles]
Johnson, R. H., 8/23/1876-12/10/1953
Johnson, Rosalee, 12/16/1885-4/29/1914
Kelso, Milton H., 12/11/1852-3/18/1899, "Husband"
Leonard, Roger, 2/3/1930, military marker "Pvt 523 Engrs" (marker almost overwhelmed by brambles)
Mason, Ethel, 9/3/1898-12/30/1916
Mason, Grant, 4/1/1870-12/6/1919
Mason, Hattie, 5/18/1894-8/10/1915 (broken, fallen)
Mason, Josephine, 12/11/1874-2/25/1961 [adjacent to marker for Grant Mason]
Mason, Martha, 1853-1912, "Mother" [replacement; adjacent to marker for Sanborn Mason]
Mason, Mary, 1877-1894
Mason, Sanborn, 1850-1895, "Father" [replacement]
Mason, Wash, 1866-1895
Mason, Willis, 1868-1896
Matlock, Rosalee W., 2/17/1921-8/18/1960
Nance, Patsy, 4/8/1844-9/18/1912, "Wife of Richard Nance"
Nance, Richard, no dates, military marker "Co. C. 1 US C.H.A."
Powell, Mary K., 3/3/1867-7/11/1909, "Wife of T. L. Powell"
Smith, Dora Burke, 7/13/1888-5/15/1950
Walker, Dallace, 1877-1941
Walker, Eliza Bearden, 9/26/1862-1/15/1914, "Wife of Owens Walker"
Walker, Lottie, 1881-1944 [adjacent to marker for Dallace Walker]
Wesley, Charlotte, 1859-12/30/1922, "Mother" [Eastern Star symbol]
Wesley, Elizabeth Burke, 9/13/1891-11/2/1969 [adjacent to marker for G. W. Wesley]
Wesley, G. W., 10/13/1888-1/4/1975
Wesley, Maud [see Hamilton, Maud Wesley]
Young, Mabel, 5/17/1912-12/20/1914
Unidentifiable
Joseph [name on footstone]
F. W. [footstone]
_______, d. 6/11/1923, "Lived to age 97" [broken marker one yard north of marker for Alpha Ann Cox; age might be 91]