Nobles, all in Section 26, T6S-R8W.(JXCO, Ms. Dickson, and west to the lands owned by W.H. The Antioch Baptist Church received the following lands from Usant Quave and his wife, Mamie Sarah Davis (1840-1908), on June 17, 1887, described as: one hundred feet east of the Church, one hundred feet north, south to the land owned by J.J. In February 1880, Pierre Quave conveyed the NE/4 of the SE/4, SE/4 of the NE/4 and the NW/4 of the SE/4 of Section 26 to his son, Usant Quave (1834-1889) (Jackson County, Ms.

The land on which the cemetery is located belonged to Pierre Quave (1808-1889) and Marie Ladner Quave (1810-1888) for many years. The Church and Cemetery are located in the NW/4 of the SE/4 of Section 26, T6S-R8W. The Antioch Baptist Church was established in Jackson County during the year of 1870. The cemetery is just south of the church. 5 miles to the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church. Turn Right (east) on to Old Fort Bayou Road and go northeasterly for 6.9 miles along this road to its intersection with Antioch Church Road. The cemetery is approximately 4 1/2 miles southwest of Vancleave.įrom the intersection of US 90 (Bienville Boulevard) and Washington Avenue at Ocean Springs go north 1.4 miles to the Rose Farm Road exit. Immediately south of the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church in the NW/4 of the SE/4 of Section 26, T6S-R8W.

Antioch Missionary Baptist Church - Fort Bayou Area Antioch Missionary Baptist Church - Fort Bayou Area ray Wed, - 10:02 The cemeteries investigations will be presented in alphabetic order. Hopefully, it will give those genealogical researchers unfamiliar with the area a clue as to where to locate their ancestors. This and subsequent articles on this subject will give the reader some of the results of this cemetery history exercise. In addition, land records research was done at the Jackson County Courthouse at Pascagoula. Before I began to seriously investigate the history of Ocean Springs and West Jackson County, Mississippi, I went to all the cemeteries within a ten-mile radius of town that I could locate, and recorded information from gravestones. It is literally a family history book waiting to be interpreted and written. In addition to providing a sacred environment for remembrance and reflection of our loved ones, a cemetery is a chronological record of the people who resided in the area. Census microfilm records and find their way to a cemetery. Anyone doing genealogical research will eventually tire of observing thousands of feet of U.S.

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