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   Concordia Cemetery

Bolivar County, MS

Tombstone Photographs

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Location: Gunnison near Rosedale
To get to the cemetery you stay on Rt 1 North past Gunnison MS, approximately 1-2 miles past the city limits of Gunnison and then turn left on a gravel road.  There is a historical marker at the turn.  There are cotton fields on either side of the gravel road.
 

The photographs in this portion of the archives were taken by:
 Cathleen Coats Barker (ccb)NOTE: Photos were taken in 1999 . The cemetery was in very poor shape even though there was some attempt to maintain it.  Many markers are gone, broken, and illegible.  It is apparent that some attempt has been made to repair several markers. It is my understanding that  in the last year (2001)a number of the headstone were destroyed by carelessness on the part of someone with a bulldozer.

Marsha Cheanult(mc)

Headstones

(Click on the underlined links to download the tombstone photograph)
 
 
 
 
 Jiffisonia E. Davidson view 1(ccb)
Jiffisonia E. Davidson view 2 (ccb)
In Memory of
       JIFFISONIA E.
   WIFE OF T. J. Davidson
    BORN JAN. 9, 1836,
     DIED SEPT. 7, 1867.
 She's gone she's left this world of woe
 For legions of eternal love
 

Note: My second great grandmother's name is Jeffersonia Elizabeth (Lawshe) Davidson; she is the granddaughter of Benjamin Hawkins & Lavinia Downs.  Benjamin Hawkins was in NC Continental Congress, and US Indian Agent for the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee and Creek nations.  He lived at the agency in Macon Georgia.

Jeffersonia & her husband lived in Bolivar County, where she died and her husband, Thomas Jefferson Davidson [with their children] moved to Water Valley, MS, where he is buried in Oakhill Cemetery.

Jeffie's marker is near a large persimmon tree.  The marker is broken with the top part cemented together.  There is a
portion of a rose at the very top of the stone partially missing -only the leaves remain; and there is still a top left piece missing with the first portion of her name "Jef'...the rest reads as follows:  "fisonia E. Wife of T. J. Davidson Born Jan. 9, 1836, Died Sept 7, 1867.(ccb)
 
 

 

 
 
 

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