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| Griffins Crossroads Cemetery AKA Coleman Heirs Cemetery Columbus County, NC  |
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| Transcribed by David B High March 1999
from the private publication "They're
Buried in Our Past Columbus County NC 1808 - 1984 (Vol 2)"
dated June
1984. This cemetery is #107 in the survey.
Permission granted by the authors Anita
Barfield and Kay Duncan. Dates are shown in a uniform
format. Demcy P, son of J O & Coon Coleman 8/20/1904 - 7/1/1906 Fannie Coleman 4/15/1864 - 4/2/1922 John W Coleman 4/15/1866 - 1/20/1906 Horace F Coleman 4/2/1879 - 11/2/1903 Archie, son of D W & Henrietta Nance 9/20/1891 - 11/30/1892 Henrietta, wife of D W Nance 3/20/1860 - 2/9/1892 Sallie Nance 4/9/1888 - 4/5/1907 J Alvah Nance 9/20/1883 - 12/6/1901 Ottie, son of D W & Henrietta Nance 10/16/1886 - 12/23/1896 Ada P Coleman 4/30/1881 - 7/30/1933 J Q Coleman 10/7/1871 - 12/25/1936 Mother, Winnie Coleman Bass 1/9/1900 - 11/6/1981 Father, Major Vance Bass 5/14/1903 - August 1987 Marion Gaston Williamson 9/2/1915 - 5/2/1961 Gaston Gevanie Williamson 5/22/1884 - 7/7/1972 Ada Frazier Williamson 6/24/1894 - 7/21/1973 M Pittman Williamson 11/17/1923 - 3/16/1977 Edward Thomas Williamson 1/3/1917 - 3/22/1963 Thurman B White; NC S2 USNR WWII 2/11/1912 - 8/19/1966 Ether Lee S Kissam 10/31/1896 - 6/17/1983 Ernest Mayo Kissam Sr 2/21/1897 - 1/23/1979 Perry Lee Kissam 11/5/1918 - 10/16/1976 Roger F Kissam 1/5/1917 - 29 January 1991 Johnny Wendell Kissam 4/12/1976 Johnnie Franklin Kissam 8/28/1917 - 3/24/1961 Dorothy Louise Kissam 2/6/1922 - 21 August 2003 Glyn Leggett 5/16/1908 - 6/14/1968 William Jesse Coleman 2/10/1898 - 4/28/1963 Ketrick Eugene Fields 9/4/1936 - 12/17/1983; Korean War Veteran Jesse W Kellihan 9/2/1913 - 4/29/1965 Benjamin T Kissam 1/4/1891 - 9/27/1968 Essie D Kissam 8/6/1895 - 2/1/1984 Charlie Lee Gore 12/12/1908 - 11/30/1968 Archie Shaw 9/2/1893 - 2/26/1970 Pearlie Thetus Faulk 7/1/1904 - 8/25/1974 Charlie Barden Faulk 3/28/1898 - November 1985 Alfred Mayes 8/29/1892 - 12/31/1971 James M Coleman 5/17/1948 - 9/10/1973 Fred Fields Sr 2/6/1895 - 3/16/1974 Mary Griffin Fields 11/25/1903 - June 1986 Ronnie Marsh Thompson 4/7/1974 - 6/11/1974 Augusta Hill "Gussie" 1890 - 1974 Dewey H Bowen 2/8/1899 - 2/16/1975 Estelle J Bowen 8/9/1907 - 5/5/1977 Woodrow Wilson Brown 10/26/1912 - 8/12/1976 Anna Marie Brown 8/3/1917 - Velma Stephens Fields 7/10/1903 - December 1992 Gurley Fields 3/1/1898 - 12/29/1978; WWI Veteran Freddy McCall Fields; US Army Vietnam 3/13/1952 - 6/10/1980 Elrose W Griffin 6/13/1932 - 8/22/1979 Grace S Prevatte 7/12/1915 - 1/23/1981 Letha E Griffing 11/14/1913 - 6/15/1982 Walter Wayne Wagner Jr; Died 1/9/1983; Age 65 (metal marker) Mitchell B Griffin Jr 6/21/1956 - 8/26/1983 Willard Ballard Faulk (Wilton); PFC US Army Korea; 4/23/1928 - 1/4/1984 Called "Coleman Heirs" Cemetery in WPA records NC State Archives Additional information on burials 2 & 11 contained in footnotes in the publication. |
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| Fayetteville Observer -
August
22, 2003 EVERGREEN - Mrs Dorothy Griffin Kissam Leggett, 81, of Evergreen, died Thursday, August 21, 2003, in Columbus County Hospital in Whiteville. The funeral will be conducted at 3 pm Saturday in Evergreen Baptist Church by the Revs Ricky Donaldson and Jack Harrison. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Mrs. Leggett is survived by three sons, Hubert F Kissam of Fairmont, Bobby G Kissam of Clayton and Johnny K Kissam of Evergreen; eight grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren. The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 9 at Worthington Funeral Home in Chadbourn. |
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