Tombstone Tuesday - William Bailey Neatherland and Martha Elizabeth Garrard

William Bailey Neatherland and Martha Elizabeth Garrard, my maternal great-grandparents, are buried in Coxburg Cemetery, in the old community of Coxburg, Mississippi, near Lexington, the county seat of Holmes County. William Bailey Neatherland and Martha Elizabeth Garrard Neatherland were parents of nine children, including my maternal grandfather, Ralph Ernest Netherland. William was born on May 22, 1845 in Scotland and died in Holmes County, Mississippi on May 24, 1937. Martha Elizabeth Garrard was born on September 8, 1853 in Kentucky, and she died on January 17 1939, just a few months after her 85th birthday. Coxburg Cemetery is the burial place of many other Neatherland/Netherland family members as well as members of several allied families, including the Bass, Harthcock, Killebrew, Pettus, Thomas, Trigleth, and Ziegler families.

Source: Digital Photograph Collection, Privately held by Janice Tracy

New Graveyard Rabbit Blog for Holmes County

I am proud to announce that I have started a new blog about the old graveyards of Holmes County, Mississippi. The new blog is "The Graveyard Rabbit of Holmes County." Some of my first posts will be about my own ancestors whose names are Netherland, Pettus, and Trigleth, buried in cemeteries in Coxburg and in Ebenezer.

I hope that you will join me on this journey through these old graveyards where many of your family members may be buried, as well.