SHIPLEY CEMETERY - Saltillo, Lee Co., MS

The Shipley Cemetery is a small family cemetery located at the end of a dead-end street in the Natchez Trace Villas subdivision (which is near the Tupelo Headquarters for the Natchez Trace Parkway). Primarily, the Raines, Hill, and Dunaway familes are buried here. It went unused for many years. The concrete markers were handmade by Dump Raines with names written by his wife, Ruby. Those do not list any dates. MOver the years many graves have been lost.

Recording is from left to right and begins in the southwest corner of the fenced cemetery.

Directions: From Hwy. 145 north of the Natchez Trace Parkway exit, turn left (west) on the Birmingham Ridge Road. Go 1.2 miles and turn left on Little Harpe Trail, then go 1/10th of a mile and turn right on Village Drive. It is a short street (2/10ths of a mile) which looks like a driveway and dead-ends at the cemetery. GPS Coordinates are: N34 20.796 W088 43.055.

Recorded Nov. 8, 2005 by Nancy Parker Fruge' and Mary Armstrong O'Neal of Tupelo, MS.

Row 1
Unmarked grave with large dead cedar tree at head
3 unmarked graves
1 unmarked grave under hickory tree
8 unmarked graves

Row 2
6 unmarked graves
HILL, Harry April 27, 1861 - Jan. 13, 1913
[s/o William Hill & Celia Ann Monk]
4 unmarked graves

Row 3
SANDERS, Troy Lawrence May 11, 1919 - Jan. 15, 1997
[s/o Oscar Sanders & B.S. Smith; m. Annie Mae Dunaway]
SANDERS, Danny April 24, 1947 - Nov. 2, 2005
[s/o Troy Lawrence Sanders & Annie Mae Dunaway; m. Norene Floyd]
Unmarked graves
HILL, Celia Ann [Monk] no dates [1843 - ????]
[d/o
HILL, William no dates [May 1835 - ????
[s/o Johnson Hill & Jane ; m. Celia Ann Monk]
Unmarked grave
HILL, Mary Agnes no dates [1863-????]
[d/o William Hill & Celia Ann Monk]
MOORE, Baby Dakota Cole April 5, 1997 - April 6, 1997
HILL, Bonner no dates [1906 - Feb 21, 1923]
[s/o George B. Hill & Etta Stanford]

Row 4
Unmarked grave
HILL, Caroline 1840 - Dec. 26, 1908
[d/o Johnson Hill & Jane ; m. Frank Ford]
Unmarked grave

Row 5
2 spaces
, Modie Rene 1938 - Dec. 29, 1997
DUNAWAY, Charlie Ray 1946 - 1993
[s/o Joseph Ernest Dunaway & Icie3 Yielding; m. Diane Whitehead]]
DUNAWAY, Diane [Whitehead] 1954 - 2005
[d/o Walter D. Whitehead & Betty Pennington; m3 Charlie Ray Dunaway]
4 spaces
Unmarked grave of foot of stump
HATLEY, Tommy
RAINES, Albert no dates
RAINES, Bob ???? - Nov. 27, 1908
[s/o Bert Raines & Susan Hill; m. Minnie Hatley]
RAINES, Anna no dates
REECE, Baby ???? - Aug. 2, 1954
2 unmarked graves
Old dead sweetgum tree

Row 6
DUNAWAY, George Richard April 15, 1946 - Jan. 16, 1986
[s/o Joe Wilson Dunaway & Della Underwood; m. Juanita Wilson]
RAINES, Elsie no dates
RAINES, Monnie no dates
RAINES, Bonnie no dates
RAINES, Billy no dates
RAINES, Cloey [Hatley] no dates
[d/o Hatley & m. Billy Raines]

Row 7
RAINES, Neete [Martha] no dates [July 1871 - Sept. 1, 1940]
d/o Raines & ; m. Wylie Hester]
RAINES, Billy James no dates [Feb. 1875 - ????]
RAINES, Jim no dates [Jan. 1889 - ????]
RAINES, Bert no dates [1845 - ????]
Co I 26 Miss Inf C.S.A.[last surviving member of this regiment]
[s/o Raines & ; m. Susan Hill]
RAINES, Greene B. no dates [Jan. 1880 - ????]
HESTER, Charlie no dates

Row 8
DUNAWAY, David Earl Nov. 8, 1974 - Nov. 9, 1974
DUNAWAY, Nita Faye Feb. 7, 1974 - Feb. 11, 1974
4 unmarked graves (unreadable funeral home markers)
DUNAWAY, Madia no dates
DUNAWAY, Joseph W. no dates
DUNAWAY, Clara Mae no dates
DUNAWAY, Claudie no dates
DODDS, Jaice no dates
HILL, J? no dates
2 unmarked graves
OWEN, Dorothy Gene no dates
KINCAID, Bobbie no dates
GARNER, RObert no dates
unmarked grave

- END OF SHIPLEY CEMETERY -

Note: Annotations in brackets [] by Mary Armstrong O'Neal.
For corrections or additions, contact Nancy Fruge' at nfruge@bellsouth.net.