Ebenezer Baptist Church Cemetery
Perry County, Mississippi
The Ebenezer Baptist Church Cemetery is located just north of the Stone County border in Perry County, Mississippi. To find this cemetery, drive three and one-half miles north from Wiggins, MS on Highway 29. The church and cemetery will be on your left.
On June 27, 2004 Howard Baulch visited this cemetery and took photos of selected tombstones. Howard's grandparents, Abner and Rosa Lee Gibson, are buried here as well as many others in the Gibson family. The transcriptions and tombstone photos are presented below. Comments in parentheses are not on the tombstone and are additional information offered by the author.
| INSCRIBED NAME (Full name) |
BORN | DIED | RELATIONSHIP | INSCRIPTION | TOMBSTONE |
| Cochran, David Vernon | Sep 9, 1921 | Married January 22, 1943 (h/o Nettye Gibson) |
A man of his word. Devoted to God and family and faithful to friends |
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| Cochran, Nettye (Nettye Gibson Cochran) |
Oct 19, 1921 | Jun 8, 2004 | Married January 22, 1943 (w/o David Vernon Cochran) (d/o Jessie Marcellus Gibson & Drusilla Pearce) |
Beautiful inside and out Devoted wife and nurturing mother with a loving and giving heart |
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| Gibson, Abner (Abner W. Gibson) |
Jun 15, 1881 | Sep 4, 1970 | (h/o Rosa Lee) (s/o Uriah Melton Gibson & Minerva Williams) |
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| Gibson, Cornelius Sprig | Feb 13, 1925 | Mar 16, 1996 | (h/o Mildred R. Colville) (s/o Jessie Marcellus Gibson & Drusilla Pearce) |
PFC US Army World War II |
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| Gibson, Drusilla (Drusilla Pearce Gibson) |
Sep 28, 1893 | Apr 17, 1941 | (w/o Jessie Marcellus Gibson) (d/o Andrew Pearce & Emma C. Hogan) |
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| Gibson, J. M. (Jessie Marcellus Gibson) |
Jan 29, 1894 | Feb 9, 1978 | (h/o Drusilla Pearce) (s/o Uriah Melton Gibson & Minerva Williams) |
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| Gibson, Lottie Bell Whigham | Mar 23, 1912 | Jul 3, 1929 | (first w/o Burl Earnest Gibson, Sr.) |
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| Gibson, Mittie Ruth | Aug 22, 1916 | Nov 13, 1998 | (d/o Abner W. Gibson & Rosa Lee) |
Forever with the Lord |  |
| Gibson, Rosa Lee | Apr 4, 1881 | Mar 4, 1933 | (w/o Abner W. Gibson) (d/o Thomas Uriah Lee, Sr. & Elizabeth Williams) |
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| Johnson, Eva Mae Gibson | May 16, 1910 | Oct 31, 2002 | (d/o Abner W. Gibson & Rosa Lee) (w/o Lewis Van Buren Johnson, Sr., div.) |
II Timothy 4:7 |  |
| Morgan, Lorena G. (Lorena Gibson Morgan) |
May 24, 1916 | Mama (d/o Jessie Marcellus Gibson & Drusilla Pearce) (w/o Melvin Morgan) |
Always thinking of others |  |
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| Morgan, Melvin | Jul 14, 1911 | May 11, 2002 | Daddy (h/o Lorena Gibson) |
A man with a loving giving heart | |
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