old pleasant grove morning star graves
Old Pleasant Grove Cemetery is now the property of Morning Star Baptist Church. It is located at 136 South Pilate Avenue in Newton, Mississippi. It is considered one of the oldest cemeteries in Newton, MS with the oldest grave recorded in 1894.
Individuals laid to rest at this graveyard are as follows:
| In Memory of | In Memory of | Aged | In Memory of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adams, Sherman | Agee, Linda M. Waltower | Banks, Martha | |
| Barnett, John | Barnett, O.C. | Beale, Susan | |
| Beasley, Henry | Bell, Albert | Bell, Alberta | |
| Bell, Hellen | Bell, Johnnie | Bingham, Michael | |
| Blalock, Hattie | Bobbett, Dynisty Bryanna | Box, Charity Haralson | |
| Box, Henry | Breland, LaDarius Ke’Shun | Infant Daughter Brown | |
| Brown, Frank | Brown, Lula Trammel | Brown, Minerva Thompson | |
| Buckley, Brianna V. | Buckley, Louis | Buckley, Richard | |
| Infant Daughter Bush | Cartlidge, Charlie | Cartlidge, Emanuel M. | |
| Cartlidge, Mary Emma Thompson | Champion, Daisy Ellis | Champion, Joe Nathan | |
| Chapman, Charlie | Chapman, Clem | Chapman, John Douglas | |
| Chapman, Percy | |||
| Clark, John | Clayton, Infant Daughter | Cleveland, Olivia McFarland | |
| Cole, Dora Lee Thompson | |||
| Cole, Pearl Ratcliff | 1900-1972 | 72 | Unknown |
| Coleman, Dora Gibson | |||
| Collins, Katherine | |||
| Collins, Lessie | Cooley, Mary Jane Eptings | Crostomp, Annie | |
| Crowther, Dora Jane Chapman | Cullum, Infant Son | Currie, Alfred | |
| Currie, Arsie | Currie, Minnie Lee Moore | Curry, Sam James | |
| Curry, Nancy Hitt Pruitt | Davis, Candace Miller | Davis, Infant Daughter | |
| Davis, Lizzie | Davis, Margaret Wood | Donald, David A. | |
| Donald, Elijah | Donald, George Lee, Sr. | Donald, Joe Lee | |
| Donald, Joseph “Joe” | Donald, Laura | Donald, Lucius | |
| Donald, Lula Sharp | Donald, Martin | Donald, Ola M. | |
| Donald, Otis | Donald, Walter | Donald, Willis Lewis | |
| Dukes, Fester | Dukes, Josephine Williams | Dukes, Larry | |
| Dukes, Loraine “Ann Gray” | Edmonson, Annie Caroline | Evans, Anna | |
| Evans, Bettye Jean Cole | Evans, Joseph Jerome | Evans, Mattie Mae Norman | |
| Evans, Melvin, Sr. | Evans, Pearline Walker | Evans, Sylvia Ann | |
| Evans, Will | Fair, Dora Thompson | Franklin, Virginia | |
| Gates, Marey E. Lake | Grass, James | Grass, Robert | |
| Gray, Infant Son | Gray, Lurena | Griffin, Infant Son | |
| Hall, Claudell | |||
| Haney, John Lee | 1911-1946 | 35 | Work Related Accident |
| Haney, Mary Alice Donald | |||
| Haney, Odelia | 1918-1936 | 18 | Unknown |
| Hardy, Gus | |||
| Hardy, Harris | |||
| Hardy, James, Jr. | |||
| Hardy, John | |||
| Hardy, Mack | |||
| Hardy, S.H. | |||
| Hardy, Taft | 1909-1988 | 79 | Unknown |
| Harper, Minerva Miles | |||
| Harper, Pete | |||
| Harris, W.H. | Harrison, Danny Earl | Hart, Eliza Berry | |
| Heard, Lizzie Watts | Hill, Walter Renee | Hilley, Infant Son | |
| Hollingsworth, Arthur | Hollingsworth, Katherine | Hughes, Grace Elizabeth | |
| Hurd, Louisa Hitt | Jackson, Andrew | Jackson, Elizabeth | |
| Jackson, John Mitchell | Jenkins, Climmie Walker | Jenkins, Ella Patterson | |
| Jenkins, Infant Son | Johnson, Louise | Johnson, Mattie A. | |
| Johnson, Robert Lee | Johnson, Rosie Pelt-Walker | Johnson, Tommy J. | |
| Jones, Brenda | Jones, Mary Bedford | Jordan, Bessie May | |
| Jordan, Infant Daughter | Jordan, Joseph Earl | Jordan, Junnie P. Phelps | |
| Jordan, Lois Cole | Jordan, Nora | Jordan, S.B. | |
| Jordan, Thomas | Jordan, Wade | Jordan, Will | |
| Kidd, Virginia Ann | King, Henry | King, Lavern Donald | |
| Lane, Infant Son | Lewis, Infant Son | Lewis, Infant Twins | |
| Lewis, Infant Twins | Loper, Mary Helen | Love, Dorothy Harrison | |
| Lyles, William | McCarty, Bill | McDonald, Cecil Bernard | |
| McDonald, John | McGee, Calvin | McGee, Millie Pickens | |
| McNichols, R.G. | Miller, Infant Daughter | Miller, Obie | |
| Moore, Jack | Moore, Lola Mae | Moore, Malissa | |
| Moore, Mary Jane Donald | Moore, Robert A. | Moore, Suckie | |
| Morris, Georgia Hardy | Morrow, Jeff | Morrow, Molly Simmons | |
| Mosely, Infant Daughter | Nichols, Connie | Nichols, Henry | |
| Nichols, Malinda | Nichols, Willie Katie | Patterson, Alex | |
| Patterson, Bob | Patterson, Charley | Patterson, Jennie Selby | |
| Payne, Charlotte Dukes | Payne, Robert James | Perkins, George | |
| Phillips, Mattie Lois Haney | 1926-1953 | 27 | Unknown |
| Pickens, Albert | |||
| Pickens, Hester Harris | |||
| Pickens, Maggie Semmes | Pickens, Martha Nichols | Pickens, Mary Catherine | |
| Poter, Clara Donald | Pruitt, Albert Lee | Pruitt, Anderson | |
| Pruitt, Infant Son | Pruitt, Rosie Yerthenia | Ratcliff, Infant Son | |
| Ratcliff, Luella “Ella” | Reed, Bess Lorela | Roberson, Infant Son | |
| Robinson, Lee | 1864-1943 | 79 | Unclear |
| Roberson, Maggie Thompson | |||
| Roberson, Rosa | |||
| Roberson, Maggie Thompson | |||
| Roberson, Rosa | |||
| Roberts, Rosa | Robinson, Callie | Robinson, Ida | |
| Robinson, Lee Samuel | Robinson, Newt. | Sanders, Doris Ann | |
| Sanders, Johnny Lee | Satcher, Gertie Banks | Scott, Anna Clayton | |
| Scott, John Ann Whitehead | Selby, George | Selby, Lucile | |
| Semmes, Naddie | Sherman, Allice | Shields, Juice | |
| Simms, Gertrude | Simms, John | Sims, Emma McCordy | |
| Skinner, Lee Grant | Slaughter, Warner | Smith, Clarence | |
| Smith, Infant Daughter | Spencer, Oper | Stovall, Louisa | |
| Tanner, Ora | Thomas, Carcetia | Thompson, Bertha | |
| Thompson, Fannie Flowers | Thompson, Frank K. | Thompson, Infant Daughter | |
| Thompson, Laura Johnson | Thompson, Marguerite | Thompson, Olevia | |
| Turner, Estelle King | Vance, Rosie Putnam | Walker, Alice Ratcliff | |
| Walker, Charley | Walker, Eva Jane Grass | Walker, Ida McDonald | |
| Walker, Infant Son | Walker, Jeraldine | Walsh, Avry Brown | |
| Waltower, Linza | Ward, Rachel | Ware, Classy | |
| Ware, George | Ware, Georgia | Ware, Orena | |
| Ware, Robert | Ware, Sill Patterson | Ware, Terry | |
| Ware, Vera | Watkins, Miles | Watts, Alex “Elliott” | |
| Watts, Ella Hopkins | Watts, Hettie D. | Watts, Infant Daughter | |
| Watts, Infant Son | Watts, Lucille Skinner | Watts, Mary | |
| Watts, Mary | Watts, Robert, Sr. | Watts, Sank, Sr. | |
| Watts, T.W., Sr. | Wells, General | Wells, Hettie | |
| Wells, Witson | Wheaton, Callie D. | Whitehead, Charlotte | |
| Whitehead, Eliza Blalock | 1861-1913 | 52 | Tuberculosis |
| Whitehead, Eva | |||
| Whitehead, Henrietta | |||
| Whitehead, John Douglas | |||
| Whitehead, Minnie | |||
| Williams, Amos Adison | |||
| Williams, Booker T. | Williams, Carrie Lee | Williams, Charity Hunter | |
| Williams, Henrietta | Williams, James | Williams, Lula | |
| Williams, Marilyn Ann Bingham | Williams, Martha Wells | Williams, Oliver | |
| Williams, Roxie Anna | Williams, Sarah Essa May | Williamson, Beulah Bell | |
| Wilson, Bob | Wilson, Infant Son | Wilson, Jessie | |
| Wilson, L.Z. | Wilson, Willie | Windham, David | |
| Windham, James Lee | Wright, Dorville | Wright, Sidney |