Cemetery Interments

Ross Baptist Church in Bertie County, North Carolina

Willie Floyd White 8-16-1896 - 2-17-1962 William A. White 8-20-1873 - 11-25-1943 Annie E. White 1-31-1878 - 12-1-1957 Lollie M. White 10-28-1887 - 7-23-1954 Lessie Todd Gardine 11-4-1911 - 5-21-1971 William G. Gardine 5-8-1901 - 8-1-1974 Elie M. Todd 10-16-1877 - 9-7-1953 Sophia H. Todd 8-1-1884 - 11-24-1949 Johnie Harrison 11-17-1884 - 11-28-1950 Willie Cedric White 10-16-1923 - 5-18-1944 Arrie Bryant White 8-9-1895 - 1-13-1985 Starkey P. Evans 3-28-1900 - 7-12-1967 Millie J. Evans 2-23-1896 - _ _ _ Martha C. Hoggard 1894 - 1989 Joseph Roger Hoggard 1-6-1939 John Henry Hoggard 8-7-1878 - 9-22-1940 Annie J. Hoggard Hoggard 7-24-1880 - 5-6-1963 William R. Todd 7-27-1879 - 4-14-1963 Minnie W. Todd 3-20-1886 - 6-26-1958 Gladys L. Todd 4-7-1910 - 6-22-1964 James Dennis Castellow 4-13-1882 - 11-21-1979 Maria White Castellow 1-20-1878 - 8-17-1966 Lossie Robert White 3-13-1894 - 8-28-1979 J.D.C. [separate marker] Roger Dance Hoggard 1872 - 1948 Sallie M. Mizzele 1861 - 1949 Clarence H. Johnson 12-7-1902 - 8-15-1971 Dessie M. Johnson 11-1-1903 - 12-6-1980 Julia Ann Johnson 12-26-1878 - 9-19-1949 Laura L. Castellow Hoggard 1-1-1875 - 12-31-1941 James David Hoggard 3-30-1961 - 7-14-1945 David George Hoggard 3-25-1883 - 3-13-1956 Mary E. Hoggard Hoggard 4-10-1888 Jarvis Pittman Hoggard 9-18-1892 - 10-31-1972 Charlie T. White 9-20-1896 - 6-11-1958 Martha C. White 8-25-1895 - 5-29-1965 William Joseph Harrison 7-21-1888 - 6-21-1956 Missouri Elizabeth Castelloe Harrison 12-22-1891 - 11-11-1981 Alonzo Hoggard 1895 - 9-27-1972 (Husband of Myrtle Evans Hoggard) Mary V. Hoggard 1894 - 1959 James Raleigh Cobb, Sr. 8-1-1909 - 10-22-1975 Helen Castelloe Cobb 7-12-1915 - 3-29-1992 "Tank" Roy Thomas Hoggard 9-19-1899 - 7-2-1963 "Bess" Bessie Miller Hoggard 9-30-1899 - 2-14-1994 Freeman Hoggard 12-14-1903 - 2-3-1963 Sarah Hoggard Hoggard 8-30-1908 - 5-5-1999 Samantha Ross Hoggard 1/15/1987- 6/8/1991 Johnny Vernon Hoggard 10-16-1927 - 12-28-1982 Louise Daniels Harrison 5-11-1921 - 4-4-1960 Wife of Thomas H. Harrison Thomas Howard Harrison 8-12-1918 - 6-4-1985 James Rudolph Castelloe 12-13-1918 - 10-4-1981 Clementine E. Castelloe 12-23-1924 Louise H. White 7-27-1911 - 1-25-1980 Gussie Lee White 12-21-1905 - 3-24-1969 Jesse W. Castelloe 11-10-1913 - 5-31-1980 Annie W. Castelloe 3-31-1910 Everette W. Castelloe 11-14-1907 - 9-3-1973 Bertha J. Castelloe 7-27-1907 - 12-10-1985 John Thomas Castelloe 12-9-1886 - 5-9-1959 Nola Miller Castelloe 11-2-1895 - 11-2-1967 Lewis B. Surgeon 1-21-1921 - 12-14-1988 Lillian Hoggard Surgeon 12-22-1921 - 2-14-1982 Caston Hoggard Harrison 12-26-1885 - 2-27-1969 Wife of William H. Harrison Clarice Hoggard Mizelle 10-29-1905 - 3-3-1988 Victoria Castelloe 7-18-1880 - 3-21-1958 Martha E. Mizelle 11-20-1872 - 12-19-1965 Penine Jernigan 11-16-1891 Jamie C. Mizelle 1-25-1942 - 5-27-1996 Louise S. Mizelle 10-22-1942 Charlie Hammer Mizelle 1942 - 1996 Jerry Neal Hoggard 1955 - 1998 Susan Charlene Mizelle _ _ _ - 2-2-1977 Alfred Oscar Hoggard 4-29-1927 - 2-22-1966 Gurney D. Mizelle 2-13-1908 - 5-5-1966 Doris V. Mizelle 9-8-1917 - 7-7-1994 Essie C. Evans 5-5-1897 - 2-15-1974 Lovey M. Evans 3-16-1908 Kelly J. Hoggard 2-21-1915 - 12-28-1987 Sadie L. Hoggard 3-12-1921 - 7-28-1998 Kelly Louis Hoggard 1-2-1973 - 5-13-1994 James Edward Hoggard 3-11-1904 - 8-11-1976 Byra Hoggard Hoggard 6-7-1909 - 3-9-1996 Raymond Webb Hoggard 3-7-1945 - 7-11-1954 Louis Watson Miller 6-8-1870 - 3-7-1937 Nancy J. Hoggard Miller 2-24-1868 - 10-10-1949 Walter Miller 1893 - 1984 Lula Baker Miller 1895 - 1972 George A. Mizelle 2-8-1873 - 4-9-1937 Martha Cowand Mizelle 7-23-1869 - 12-4-1959 Lula Harris 3-9-1912 - 8-4-1937 Lindsey D. Harrell 11-14-1924 - 8-6-1996 Doris E. Harrell 10-22-1927 Charles E. Cloe II 3-31-1964 - 3-7-1968 Wesley E. (Wesson) Hoggard 1866 Rebecca Harrison Hoggard 1873 - 1964 Ira M. Hawkins 9-1-1889 - 12-12-1966 Rosa A. Hawkins 4-6-1874 - 8-12-1958 M. Frank Hawkins 5-2-1879 - 3-27-1968 George M. Williford 1866 - 1942 J. W. Carter 1870 - 1956 James E. Hoggard 10-7-1927 Mildred Hoggard Hoggard 8-27-1928 - 3-24-1997 George Alfred Hoggard 1-6-1892 - 1-26-1959 Carrie E. Cowand Hoggard 5-7-1897 - 9-24-1950 Christian E. Castellow Cowand 3-10-1859 - 4-12-1937 Jackson Lee Farmer 1957 - 1957 Donnie C. Bryant II 3-1-1937 - 6-10-1937 Gertrude J. Bryant 9-19-1940 - 9-19-1940 Donnie C. Bryant 2-11-1908 - 7-11-1957 Catherine F. Bryant 2-21-1914 - 9-1-1979 Leslie Rhea 5-2-1908 - 2-9-1985 Lola H. Rhea 4-7-1911 John Henry Hoggard 8-7-1878 - 9-22-1940 John T. Perry 3-14-1885 - 10-10-1942 Mollie A. Perry 8-4-1883 - 3-11-1953 Ernest C. Hoggard 1930 - 1952 Lucretia E. Perry 11-21-1916 - 10-8-1978 Jesse Mack Perry 2-23-1914 - 3-6-1980 Nannie Bryant Evans 2-3-1894 - 9-8-1980 Thomas P. Evans 5-29-1890 - 11-15-1943 Sallie M. Jernigan 4-16-1862 - 7-28-1941 Hubert A. Hoggard 10-22-1933 - 6-3-1951 Louisa Cowand 1863 - 1938 Ida Penlope Cowan 10-14-1873 - 1-6-1946 Milton M. Cowan 2-9-1905 - 12-29-1945 William T. Evans 7-1854 - 8-1945 Edward Earl Hoggard 12-5-1947 - 3-28-1948 James Junior Hoggard 5-11-1926 Iva Johnson Hoggard 10-2-1927 - 9-25-1995 Bryant P. White 7-12-1872 - 1-21-1950 Martha A. White 9-11-1874 - 12-16-1943 Penelope Hoggard White 9-18-1897 - 8-7-1948 W. Marshall White 3-27-1906 - 4-27-1982 Venure C. White 5-15-1914 - 11-13-1985 Louis Felton Todd 2-17-1911 - 1-29-1976 Minnie Leigh Todd Todd 8-6-1919 - 3-7-1975 Lollie M. White 10-28-1887 - 7-23-1954 Linwood L. White 4-23-1907 - 10-22-1956 Edrie Hael White 1-31-1911 - 9-11-1978 Sellie Crusoe Bryant 2-27-1885 - 6-27-1955 Helen Mae Cowan Bryant 7-31-1888 - 4-10-1945 Lattie M. Deichmiller 9-7-1919 - 4-2-1978 Douglas Felton Todd 6-30-1950 - 8-28-1988 John J. Harrison 9-8-1920 - 7-16-1962 Rosa Cowan Harrison 8-7-1893 - 2-28-1974 According to native Historian's & Researcher's Stanley Hoggard and Neil Baker: There are five graves in the Ross Cemetery without headstones. All but two are identified on the top of the surface concrete vault they were buried in. The two that are not identified are Wesson Hoggard DOB: 3-17-1866 DOD: 1-28-1955, and Nancy Carter Hoggard, wife of Roger Dance Hoggard, but they do have a slab of concrete on both graves. Many thanks to Neil Baker, Stanley Hoggard and John Tayloe for providing this complete list of interments and the photographs they have contributed! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Ross Baptist Church Organized - 1804 Sunday School 9:45 ~ Worship Service 11:00 1020 Bull Hill Road Windsor, NC 27983

Quote from William Gladstone ~ Three-time Prime Minister of England and Victorian contemporary of Benjamin Disraeli: "Show me the manner in which a nation or community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender mercies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land, and their loyalty to high ideals." ROSS BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY Bertie County, NC History of Ross Baptist Church

A tale begun in other days, when summer suns were glowing ~ "Show me your cemeteries, and I will tell you what kind of people you have." Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790) Gratitude to John Wesley Cowand for these current photographs of Ross Baptist Church.       A simple chime that served to time the rhythm of our rowing ~       +++++++ 2003 +++++++