Collums Cemetery

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About

This project will catalog and document all burials in Collums Cemetery, located outside Bruce Mississippi. This free space page for the Collums Cemetery was created to document the life and times of our ancestors that are interred there.

This page is a work in progress, and will remain so until the Table of Interments (below) is completed. The Table of Interments is a sortable listing of persons interred at this cemetery, some or all of whom are linked to existing WikiTree profiles. If you know of a person interred at this cemetery that should be linked to an existing WikiTree profile, or needs to have a profile created for them, please contact Kris Shearer for assistance.

Contact Information, Location and Map

Location

Located on County Road #153, near the Chickasaw, Pontotoc, and Calhoun County lines. From State Highway 32, turn north on CR 153 approximately seven miles east of Bruce. The cemetery is on the west side of the road.

GPS Coordinates

Latitude 34.0583, Longitude -89.2483

Collums Cemetery on Google Maps

History

The Collums Cemetery began when Amanda Frances Brasher Collums and Greenberry Collums buried their two young sons, Alson G. Collums and Lawrence Dempsey Collums, in a side yard of their property in 1861 and 1862. Today, the cemetery is the resting place for almost five hundred family and friends. ^[1] In addition to Collums, other prominant surnames from Chickasaw and Calhoun Counties in this cemetery include Brasher, Easley, Lantrip, Overby, and many others.

Each year, the Collums Cemetery Memorial is held at 11:00 am on the first 5th Sunday month after the Easter month. If the Easter month has 5 Sundays it will not be in that month but the next month that has five Sundays. ^[2]

• July 29, 2018
• June 30, 2019
• May 31, 2020
• May 30, 2021
• May 29, 2022
• July 30, 2023
• June 30, 2024
• June 29, 2025

Table of Interments

Note: Pictures posted are by permission. Check profiles for links to Find a Grave for pictures not posted here. For a more complete list while this memorial is being created, you can go to a full alphabetical list at the Collums Cemetery FreeSpace. [2].

Sortable table

Last Name	First/Middle Names/Initials/Maiden	Born	Died	Age	Notes	Photo (click for larger)
Collums	Greenberry Major	1817-01-01	1867-08-07	50	Collums Cemetery started on his land.
Collums	Obadiah	1833-01-13	1916-10-29	83
Johnson	Joseph Greenberry “Joe”	1850-07-01	1922-09-17	72	Husband of Martha Louvanda Brasher
Johnson	Martha Louvanda Brasher	1855-08-25	1929-01-25	73	A tender mother and a faithful friend
Collums	John Eliheu	1849-11-26	1884-08-17	34
Collums	James Knox Polk “JP”	1860-05-22	1920-10-02	60	Woodsmen of the World marker
Collums	Henry Gideon “Gid”	1839-08-29	1929-02-03	89
Collums	Nancy Catherine Lantrip	1845-03-17	1924-01-09	92	Wife of Henry Gideon “Gid” Collums
Collums	Henry Cornelius	1820-04-20	1895-10-22	75
Collums	George Dallas “Dal”	1845	1932-03-13	87
Collums	Greenberry B “Bud”	1868-03-28	1930-06-13	62
Collums	Forrest C	1902-04-18	1962-05-11	60
Collums	Floyd Henderson	1874-01-29	1941-01-26	67
Collums	Dave	1881	1948	67
Collums	Adam	1906-05-14	1937-09-27	31
Collums	Albert G	1880-10-27	1950-05-21	69
Collums	Alson G	1860-11-23	1862-06-30	1	Gravesite Details (ceramic marker)
Collums	Amanda Frances Brasher	1817-07-18	1894-01-06	76	Wife of G.B. Collums
Collums	Andrew John	1871-09-29	1931-08-26	59
Collums	Betty	1890-09-22	1912-03-30	21	Wife of Andrew John Collums, unknown maiden name
Collums	Billy Joel	1931-08-20	1998-11-02	67	Inscription: Father, Military Marker: PFC US MARINE CORPS KOREA
Aron	James D	Apr 26, 1931	May 7, 1931	0	son of JD and Gola Overby Aron
Aron	Jimmy Earl	Jan 10, 1941	July 18, 2016	75	Treasure your past for it is the key to wisdom
Prewitt	Clealon Lowell "Cleal"	1898-11-29	1961-08-17	62
Prewitt	Dera C	1907-08-01	1987-04-29	79
Collums	Blanche M	1897-01-12	1901-10-07	4	Daughter of Lon & Lena Collums
Collums	C. J.	1925-09-22	1994-10-21	69
Collums	Calvin Jeffery “Pete”	1968-11-15	2006-06-26	37
Collums	Clifton L	1920-10-20	2002-07-22	81
Collums	Cora Mae Bray	1889-12-19	1972-03-21	82	Wife of Floyd H. Collums
Collums	Dallas Lee	1877-04-22	1934-09-21	57
Collums	Dave	1881	1948-06-06	67
Collums	Dempsey Young	1895-11-21	1918-10-1	23	Killed in Action World War I, Private
Collums	Dempsey Allen	1882-03-25	1952-11-19	70
Collums	Doyle Elzie	1914-09-29	1994-04-10	80	David Scott Miller
Collums	Eliza J. Garrett	1872-05-16	1963-03-09	98
Collums	Elmer	1890-11-23	1925-09-25	35
Collums	Elton Lester	1907-04-02	1959-12-05	52
Collums	Claxton Monroe "Tunnie"	1923-11-23	1962-02-07	38	Military Marker: MISS. S2 US COAST GUARD WWII, Husband of Marjorie Dee Easley
Collums	Easter J	1882-09-24	1975-02-03	92	Wife of Claude M Collums
Collums	Claude M	1875-09-16	1949-07-24	73
Collums	Dempsey Monroe	1849-07-20	1910-12-18	61
Collums	Dora Paralee Johnson	1873-06-27	1917-04-03	44
Brasher	Alice Elizabeth Collums	1869-06-09	1954-06-19	85
Carr	Alice Serdine “Annie” Collums	1860-05-22	1927-08-27	67	Monument Reads: Rest, mother, rest in quiet sleep, While friends in sorrow o'er thee weep
Chrestman	Mattie Alice Collums	1882-05-06	1938-01-17	56
Brasher	Ada Frances Collums	1878-02-28	1948-11-17	70
Collums	Emsley B	1869-09-26	1950-09-27	81
Camp	John Harmon Sr	July 20, 1936	May 8, 2012	75
Camp	Leona Moore	May 14, 1916	Dec 19, 1987	71
Camp	Mattie Carr	1884	1915	31
Carr	Doctor Powell	Nov 1, 1893	Sept 23, 1966	72	Private, US Army WWI
Camp	Everett Buren	Feb 21, 1905	Aug 15, 1905	0	Budded on Earth to Bloom in Heaven.
Carr	Henry Perkins “HP”	May 13, 1852	August 19, 1928	76	Rest, father, rest in quiet sleep, While friends in sorrow o'er thee weep.
Carr	Mack C	1881	1950	69
Camp	Harmon Perk	June 20, 1908	Oct 9, 1991	83
Morgan	Vattie Lee Carr	Nov 1, 1888	May 7, 1975	86
Collums	Emsley I	1854-06-17	1866-02-17	11

Sources

1. ↑ Chickasaw County History Vol 2, The Chickasaw County Historical and Genealogy Society, 1997, Houston, Mississippi
   • Collums, Greenberry F310, page 306 – 307, by Martha M Burt
2. ↑ Collums Cemetery, Scanned and indexed in June 2000 by Mar’ka Bland and Peggy A. Young [1]