Tombstone Tuesday Mrs Lizzie Green

Mrs Lizzie Green
Born May 7 1883
D. April 1 1931
Gone to Rest
Zion Chapel AME Church Cemetery
Caseyville, MS

Daughter of Claiborne and Caroline Allen Scott
Wife of Johnnie Green

Tombstone Tuesday Mother and Daughter

Patsy Hooker
1852-1919
Sallie Hooker
1886-1918
Zion Chapel AME Church Cemetery
Caseyville, Lincoln County, MS

Tombstone Tuesday - Roundtree

Roundtree
Isaac
Sept 11 1876
Sept 13 1955
I fought a good fight

Effie A
Oct 7 1872
Sept 6 1968
A servant of God at rest

Ike and Effie are buried at Zion Chapel AME Church Cemetery in Caseyville, MS.
Photograph courtesy of Nathaniel Thomas.

Tombstone Tuesday - Family Tradegy

Asriah Markham
b Sept 2 1904
d April 1 1923
Zion Chapel Church Cemetery
Lincoln County, Mississippi

NEGRO KILLS SELF ON HOMOCHITTO BRIDGE, SO STORY GOES
News has come from the western part of the county that Sunday night, a son of Jim Markham, orderly and well-to-do negro of the western part of the county, accidentally killed himself on the Homochitto bridge on Union Church Road.

From all reports received of the occurrence, which Sheriff R. C. Applewhite is not satisfied with until it is investigated still further, witnesses having already been summoned into Brookhaven. Markham who was 19 years old had been out late with a couple of friends, all of them riding horses. When he and his friends reached the Homochitto Bridge, it is said that Markham dismounted and when he attempted to mount his horse, a pistol which he was carrying, fell out of his pocket, discharged and killed him, almost instantly.

Cousins last saw Asirah mounting his horse with friends to go do what young men do after Sunday church service, visit girls. The rumor in the family is Asirah was murdered by one of the riders because they were both interested in the same girl. Supposedly, the girl was more interest in Asirah than his riding companion. Neighbor Henry Davis rode through the neighborhood notifying relatives of Asirah's death.

Asirah Markham was the son of James Markham and Anna Culver. Asirah was my mother's first cousin.

Source: Leader Newspaper - Brookhaven, MS - April 04, 1923 - Page 1
Microfilm Number: 30798
Mississippi Department of Archives and History

Tombstone Tuesday - Catherine Markham Scott

In Memory of Cathern Scott
Feb 10 1862
July 24 1948
At Rest
Zion Chapel Cemetery
Caseyville, Lincoln County, Mississippi

Catherine was the daughter of James and Jane McCray Markham
Wife of James Pearlie Scott
Mother of Memphis Merchant, Robert Scott, Frank Scott, Walter Scott, Philip Scott, Pearlie Scott, Jr., Estelle Scott Crossley, and Sallie Scott

Tombstone Tuesday - Ida Markham

Ida Markham
Born Oct 18 1895
Died Oct 10 1922
Zion Chapel AME Church Cemetery
Caseyville, Lincoln County, MS

Ida May Thomas, daughter of Alexander Thomas and Roxanne Smith, married James Monroe Markham. James was my mother's 1st cousin.

Tombstone Tuesday - Sarah Jane Buie

In Memory of Sarah Jane Buie
Wife of Joe Buie
Died April 04 1904
Age 40 years
Zion Chapel A. M. E. Church Cemetery
Caseyville, Lincoln County, MS

Sarah was born about 1862 in Caseyville, then Copiah County, MS. She was the daughter of Henry Israel and Martha Ann Henderson. Her husband Joseph Buie was one of the former slaves who was interviewed by the WPA during the 1930s.

Joseph Buie's Slave Narrative

Tombstone Tuesday - Memphis Merchant

Memphis Merchant
1882 - 1959
Zion Chapel A. M. E. Church Cemetery
Caseyville, Lincoln County, Mississippi