New Morning Star Cemetery

New Morning Star
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
From: Compiled 3-10-1999 by Darrell Winder and Greggory E. Davies

Directions: Go approximately 18 miles west of Winnfield on U. S. Highway 84 to the old Barnett's Grocery. Turn left (south) onto Morning Star Road and travel south approximately two miles, staying left, to New Morning Star Baptist Church and the cemetery is across the road from the church. Many, many unmarked and unlabeled graves exist in the cemetery.

Adams, Leonard
11-25-1955
Pvt. U. S. Army

Allen, James, Sr.
2-7-1868 - 11-30-1938

Anthony, Carrie
4-18-1918 - 9-26-1989

Brown, Pat
12-28-1939 - 1-7-1972

Carr, Sarah V.
1889 - 1942

County, Ada G.
1905 - 1985

County, Gary
2-16-1963 - 7-9-1992

County, Jimmy
4-2-1942 - 5-25-1980

County, John
9-24-1924 - 11-15-1960
La. CK3 USNR WWII

County, Leola
no dates

County, Leroy
9-25-1971 - 12-4-1971

County, Richard Lee
2-6-1964 - 7-9-1992

Cunningham, Mary Jane
7-12-1892 - 10-7-1967

Evans, Eugene
5-16-1928 - 5-21-1983

Evans, Luther B.
7-20-1949 - 3-10-1995

Evans, Mitchell G.
12-22-1971 - 9-30-1988

Evans, Oscar Clarence
8-8-1930 - 9-20-1972

Franklin, Lizzie
no dates

Gibson, R. D.
3-3-1889 - 6-6-1981
Pvt. U. S. Army WW I

Gipson, Henry D.
8-7-1910 - 12-30-1980

Harris, Odella (Allen?)
1-15-1870 - 8-4-1957

Houston, Sally
7-4-1856 - 7-30-1924

Howard, Kissie
2-12-1880 - 12-11-1981

Jefferson, Fedora M. Anthony
1936 - 1986

King, Helen A.
1943 - 1983

Nobles, Francis Eva
9-18-1920 - 5-22-1993
(Tennie)

Payton, Rena H.
1909 - 1977

Peats, Anna S.
1893 - 1980

Perry, Zephie P. Small
9-27-1904 - 7-14-1974

Pervis, James A., Jr.
10-30-1893 - 10-3-1958
Pvt. La. 523 Engr. Serv. Co.
WWI

Pitts, Essie L.
10-5-1907 - 3-10-1997

Pitts, Gene
no dates

Pitts, William B.
11-26-1904 - 12-10-1983

Purvis, Baby Unnamed
no dates
Children of James & Odella Purvis:
(seven names below on one stone)

Purvis, Baby Unnamed
no dates
Children of James & Odella Purvis:
(seven names below on one stone)

Purvis, Dock
8-8-1896 - 9-7-1897
Children of James & Odella Purvis:
(seven names below on one stone)

Purvis, Eula
2-25-1895 - 5-10-1907
Children of James & Odella Purvis:
(seven names below on one stone)

Purvis, Governor C.
10-10-1975
In Memory of Governor C. Purvis

Purvis, James Allen
2-7-1868 - 11-30-1938

Purvis, Johnny
3-12-1900 - 11-1900
Children of James & Odella Purvis:
(seven names below on one stone)

Purvis, Lula
7-12-1878 - 3-21-1947

Purvis, Martha B.
2-22-1867 - 12-24-1926

Purvis, Mary
1833 - 4-29-1923

Purvis, Wilber
9-12-1912 - 5-16-1913
Children of James & Odella Purvis:
(seven names below on one stone)

Purvis, William
4-20-1905 - 4-20-1905
Children of James & Odella Purvis:
(seven names below on one stone)

Redmond, Ella Mae
4-2-1918 - 10-26-1980

Small, Perry Edward
9-15-1923 - 6-5-1989
"Iron Jaw"

Smith, Overton
5-5-1925 - 9-28-1979

Sykes, Lula Tyson
8-29-1904 - 1-14-1990

Turner, Alex
1898 - 1957

Turner, Alfred
7-9-1894 - 7-15-1967
La. Pvt. U. S. Army WW I

Turner, Ella
9-21-1876 - 12-21-1963

Turner, McKinley
11-27-1903 - 8-16-1958

Wyatt, Louise
1914 - 1945

Wyatt, Malainda
9-24-1871 - 3-7-1925

Wyatt, Willie C.
2-1-1895 - 3-21-1982

Wyatt?, Charlie
1886 - 1963
Source name: Charlie (Wyatt?)