GOLIGHTLY MOUNDS

 CEMETERY

 

 

Turrell, Crittenden County, Arkansas

 

Reconstructed burials

 

 

The Sanders Family, One of the Families Buried at Golightly Mounds

Golightly Cemetery Newpaper Articles

History of Lambethville by Margaret Woolfolk

 

 

The following is a reconstructed list of individuals who were buried at Golightly Cemetery.  If you have information on others buried in this cemetery,

please contact me.

 

 

The following individuals were submitted by John Feather, May 2003

LIZZIE [Elizabeth] SANDERS ELLIOTT GEISER

born June 6, 1862, Madison County, Mississippi; first marriage to Schap Elliott; child born (William) who died in 1898 (buried in Mounds Cemetery); married David Geiser, September 4, 1889, Memphis (Shelby County), Tennessee [age 27]; died September 2, 1896, Jericho (Crittenden County), Arkansas [age 34]; originally buried on the family farm under an apple tree so that the children (including my grandmother) could be near her, but transferred the Golightly Mounds Cemetery when her husband sold the property and moved to Cross County, Arkansas.

 

MARTINA SANDERS

Known as “Sweety” or “Sweet”; born about 1865; daughter of Henrietta Bradford Luckett and Edward Douglass Sanders; married Samuel Smith; had four sons, Warner, Edward, Elmer, and Samuel; died in childbirth in 1900; buried at Mounds Cemetery

 

CORNELIA SANDERS

Born about 1867; daughter of Henrietta Bradford Luckett and Edward Douglass Sanders; died about age 17 or 18 (in 1884 or 1885); buried at Mounds Cemetery

 

EMMA SANDERS

Born about 1870; daughter of Henrietta Bradford Luckett and Edward Douglass Sanders; died about age 12 (1882); buried at Mounds Cemetery

 

EDWARD DOUGLASS SANDERS [or SAUNDERS]

Born July 1, 1837 in Canton, Mississippi; married Henrietta Bradford Luckett in the 1860s in the Catholic Church in Canton, Mississippi; moved to Crittenden County, Arkansas around 1873 or 1874; died 1893 [age 56]; buried at Mounds Cemetery.

 

WILLIAM ELLIOTT

Born about 1882; son of Lizzie Sanders and Schap Elliott; lived with Oliver Luckett, his mother’s brother after her death in  1896; died in 1898, of uremia poisoning; buried in Mounds Cemetery.

 

INFANT SON OF OLIVER LUCKETT SANDERS

 

MARY FRANKLIN (listed in the Daniels section)

Born September 1890; married Walter William Alley February 21, 1909 in Lambethville at age 18; marriage solemnized by G.W. Daniels, Justice of the Peace (Crittenden County Marriage Bond Q, Page 239); had one child, Gertrude; died in childbirth in 1910; buried in the Golightly Mounds Cemetery. 

 

 

The following individuals are noted in the newspaper articles, from Helen Hicks

Additional information has been submitted by Kim Opalewski Brizendine

 

BRIZENDINE, Annie Laura Jones/Flannigan, born Dec 1, 1854, died Apr 2, 1925, Crittenden County. Annie Laura Brizendine, wife of James Galveston Brizendine, was married once before. Her first married name was Flannigan. She had at least one child (a daughter) by her first marriage.

 

BRIZENDINE, James Galveston, born Aug 27, 1855, died May 23, 1936, Crittenden County (husband of Annie Laura) The father of James Galveston Brizendine was Isaac James Brizendine.  Isaac Brizendine married Elizabeth Ragland in Marshall County, Alabama on 5 Sep 1849. Mother of James Gaveston Brizendine, Elizabeth Ragland (from Alabama), had several brothers - at least two of whom ended up in the Mississippi County, AR area in the 1870s and 1880s  - William T (or J) and Newton.

 

BRIZENDINE, James Lathe, born Feb 7, 1897, Turrell, AR, died Mar 6, 1929, Crittenden County.  James Lathe, son of James Galveston and Annie Laura Flannigan Jones, was reportedly born 7 Feb 1897 in AR. "James Lathe Brizendine died due to a gun shot wound. The shooting was ruled accidental."

BRIZENDINE, Peggy Sue, died 1948

 

 

Brisendine/Brizendine Genealogy Website

 

Contact Jim & Kim Brizendine

[email protected]

 

 

 

 

The following individuals were submitted by Virginia (Thresher) Griffin, August 2003

 

THRASHER, George Washington, born Dec 24, 1850 in Rogersville, TN, died 1889 in Lambethville, AR (great-grandfather of Virginia Thresher Griffin)

 

THRASHER, Martha Ellen (Gosnell), born Jan 4, 1854 in KY, died Jan 4, 1929, Memphis, TN, wife of George W. Thrasher

 

THRASHER, Minnie, born and died Lambethville, AR, daughter of George W. & Martha Thrasher

 

THRASHER, Sammy, born and died Lambethville, AR, son of George W. & Martha Thrasher

 

THRASHER, George Washington, Jr., born Jan 25, 1880, Lambethville, AR, died Nov 29, 1920, Memphis, TN, son of George W. & Martha Thrasher

 

THRASHER, James Leighton, born May 1874, Fountain Run, KY, died May 5, 1905, Lambethville, AR, son of George W. & Martha Thrasher

 

THRASHER/SPEEGLE, Lula Cinda Morrow, born Mar 25, 1876 in Lucy, TN, died Apr 15, 1938 in Memphis, TN, wife of James Leighton Thrasher, daughter of George & Margaret Hamilton Morrow

 

THRASHER, Robert Leighton, born and died Lambethville, AR, son of James Leighton and Lula Morrow Thrasher

 

THRASHER, George Waldren, born and died Lambethville, AR, son of James Leighton and Lula Morrow Thrasher

 

THRASHER, Nellie May, born and died Lambethville, AR, daughter of James Leighton and Lula Morrow Thrasher

 

MORROW, George Oliver, born Mar 19, 1819, Abbeville County, SC, died between 1882-1900, Memphis, TN

 

MORROW, Margaret Jane Hamilton, born May 25, 1840, Abbeville County, SC, died 1926 in Lambethville, AR, wife of George Oliver Morrow

 

HORTON, Clementine Morrow, born Aug 1863 in Mississippi, daughter of George & Margaret Hamilton Morrow, sister of Lula Cinda Morrow Thrasher

 

 

 

The following individuals were submitted by Rev. D. G. Daniels, August 2003

 

FRANKLIN, John William, Jr., born 1895, died before 1915, Lambethville

 

FRANKLIN, Robert, born about 1901, died before 1915, Lambethville

 

FRANKLIN, Grace, born May 1892, died about 1908, Lambethville

 

FRANKLIN, Mary, born Sep 1890, died Jan 1910, Lambethville

 

RAGLAND, Clarence Walter, born 1837 in Jefferson County, KY, died about 1900 in Lambethville, AR

 

RAGLAND, America “Heady”, born Ohio, died about 1900 Lambethville, AR

 

(Clarence Walter and America Heady Ragland were the grandparents of Ella Franklin Cole/Savage, Mildred Franklin Daniels, and Willie Franklin Cloar.  Ella and Mildred were both born at Lambethville.  Willie was born on Shake Rag Creek in Wayne County, TN.  All three are buried at Crittenden Memorial Park in Marion.  John William Franklin and Martha Louise Ragland Franklin were the parents of Ella, Mildred and Willie.  Both are buried in Cloar Cemetery)

 

 

The D. G. Daniels Family Page

 

 

The following information was submitted by Juanita Mitchusson Nelson

January 14, 2005

 

“Dakota and John H. Brizendine were buried on the mounds, I attended the funeral of Dakota.  James L. Brizendine was buried on Becks Plantation in Hughes Ark. Drew and Angeline Mitchusson, James G. and Annie Laurie Brizendine, both sets of my grandparents were buried on the mounds. A sister Florence Hawks Mitchusson was buried there also and probably a brother, Charles Woodrow Mitchusson.”

 

Contact: Juanita Mitchusson Nelson

 

BRIZENDINE, Dakota C., died Apr 8, 1946, female, age 58, Crittenden County

(First wife of Sam Mitchusson, second wife of John Henry Brizendine – Is Sam Mitchusson

also buried here? He probably died between 1912-1920)

BRIZENDINE, John Henry, died Apr 5, 1942, age 64, Crittenden County

MITCHUSSON, Drew

MUTCHUSSON, Angeline

MITCHUSSON, Florence Hawks

MITCHUSSON, Charles Woodrow (possibly buried here)

 

BRIZENDINE, James L., died Mar 6, 1929, Crittenden County (James Lathe)

This burial was at Beck’s Plantation, Hughes, St. Francis County, AR

 

 

The following names are from the Arkansas Death Index for the years 1914-1948, for deaths recorded in this area.  It is not known if these burials actually took place at Golightly Cemetery.  If you have information on these individuals, or others, please contact me.

 

Crittenden County:

GOLIGHTLY, WILLIAM, died Dec 9, 1938

MITCHENSON (no given name listed), died Mar 29, 1928

 

Mississippi County:

MITCHASSON, Mary Jane, died Sep 6, 1928

 

Poinsett County:

MICHERSON, (no given name listed), died Oct 13, 1931

MITCHERSON, Jo Ann, died Aug 31, 1935

MITCHERSON, Mamie, died Jan 16, 1934

 

 

 

 

Additional census information submitted by Kim Opalewski Brizendine: 

In 1910, the Crittenden County (Old River Township), census shows a Dakota Mitchusson with a husband Sam Mitchusson.

According to the  1920 Crittenden County (Old River Township) census, John H. Brizendine was married to a wife (Dakota) with an 8 year old stepson (Sam Mitchusson), two daughters (Blanch  and "illegible"), and an infant son (John Jr).

On the 1930 Crittenden County (Old River Township) census, John H. Brizendine appears as having a wife (Dakota), four daughters (Blanche, Margaret, Henrietta, Thelma), a son (Marvin H), and a step son (Sammie Mitchusson). Their oldest child is age 15. The stepson is age 18 (birthdate ca 1912). It would  probably be safe to assume that John Henry Brizendine and Dakota Brizendine were husband and wife.

The 1880 Crittenden County (Scott Twp) census shows James Gavleston Brizentine living close to J.C. Brizentine. James Galveston did have a brother, John, a couple years older than him. The ages for both of them appear appropriate for being the two brothers on the 1880 census. J.C. Brizentine and wife N.E. had three sons listed (Jos. W., I.J., and John H - age 3) on the 1880 census. Therefore, an assumption (but not proven) would be that the "John Henry Brizendine" was the nephew of James Galveston Brizendine.