Fayette County, Alabama
~ Panter Family Cemetery (#1) ~
(Old
Panter Cemetery)
Location:
About one mile
northeast of Pea Ridge (S14-T15S-R10W).
Ms. Dill's 3rd-great-grandparents, John Calvin Panter (Painter) and
Lucinda Lawrence, donated the land for this cemetery. Federal
land records show that Calvin Painter
(sic) acquired the property in 1858.
Copied by:
Originally surveyed by Herbert M. Newell Jr. & Jeanie Patterson
Newell (1958); updated by Betsy Haley
Dill - 11 Jul 1999 ~ (notes
added by Ms. Dill, based on observations, family interviews, census
records, family histories, and lore; other additions/corrections are highlighted)
PENDLEY, Elmer - Feb 18, 1926 -
Feb 4, 1957
PENDLEY, Frances - June
26, 1937 - (no date) ~ (ssw Elmer
Pendley; b.
June 30, 1937, per
1958 survey)
FELTMAN, Lincoln - May 9, 1909
- May 4, 1995 ~ (Feltman family plot)
FELTMAN, Lula
- 1884 - 1954 ~ (single grave
between the two graves listed above and below in Feltman plot)
FELTMAN, Cora Lee - Jan 21,
1921 - (no date) ~ (Feltman family
plot)
PENDLEY, Julis
A. - Nov 19, 1915 - Oct 24, 1980
PENDLEY, Alcie L. - Dec 13,
1908 - (no date) ~ (ssw Julis
Pendley)
PENDLEY, David
Lee - Jan 15, 1923 - Feb 4, 1957 ~ (David
Leon Pendley, per 1958
survey)
PENDLEY, Zadie
- May 29, 1897
- Mar 7, 1998 ~ (ssw Lull
Pendley)
PENDLEY, Lull - Aug 13, 1884 -
Oct 22, 1946
- (Lull
Pendley reportedly shot Babe ROBERTS in a fight over Zadie. The
event was immortalized in a playground song that went something like
"Turn me over easy, turn me over light, turn me on my side, so's the
bullet don't hurt so bad." Source: Velva Lee PAINTER GILLION, age
90.) [1]
(Three unmarked graves)
SAWYER, Fenton C. - Jan 28,
1890 - Dec 24, 1971 ~ (son
of James Sawyer & Mary PAINTER) [1]
SAWYER, Mollie - Aug 10, 1894 -
April 24, 1951 ~ (dau
of Benjamin F. PAINTER & Eliza NORRIS) [1]
JOHNSTON, Lucinda - Dec 13,
1892 - Dec 31, 1929 ~ (dau
of Benjamin F. PAINTER & Eliza NORRIS) [1]
JOHNSTON, Thomas Delmar - Feb
10, 1902 - Sept 8, 1990
JOHNSTON, Bertha Lee - Jan 8,
1908 - June 18, 1996 ~ (ssw Thomas
D. Johnston)
JOHNSTON, Clarence, son of
Delmar & Bertha Johnston - May 19, 1934
- May 8, 1992 ~ (Johnston family
plot)
JOHNSTON, Jewel "Jude" ~ (Johnston
family plot)
JOHNSTON, Tommie "Bo," son of
Clarence & Jude Johnston - July 11,
1968 - (no date) ~ (Johnston family
plot)
COOK, Andrew T. - 1922 -
1987
COOK, Ruby L. - 1927 - (no
date) ~ (nee
Ruby Lee JOHNSTON, dau of Thomas Delmar Johnston & Lucinda PAINTER;
ssw Andrew T. Cook)
[1]
JOHNSTON, Mitchell - Dec 5,
1953 - June 30, 1995
PANTER, Roxie ~ (no dates; dau of
Benjamin F. Panter & Eliza NORRIS, b. Dec 1883)
PANTER, Della ~ (no dates; dau of
Benjamin F. Panter & Eliza NORRIS, b. Sept 1882)
PANTER, Eliza Norris ~ (no
dates; dau
of William Norris & Mary Jane TIREY, b.
July 1858;
md. Jan 6, 1878, in Fayette Co., AL, Benjamin
Franklin PA(I)NTER) [1]
PANTER, Benjamin Franklin ~ (no
dates)
- (son
of Calvin & Lucinda PA(I)NTER, b. Dec 1856, Fayette Co., AL; Ben
was only 4-feet tall and is said
to have been riding in a buggy, got sick and fell over dead; father of
Woodard Lafayette, Della, Roxie, Andrew, Eugene Geebuck, Valentine
"Vol," Lucinda, Mollie and Martha Ella PA(I)NTER) [1]
GILLION, Ora - 1899 -
1907
BRAND, George W. - April 17,
1898 - May 8, 1963
BRAND, Jesse James - Aug 4,
1875 - Feb 16, 1929
(Two unmarked graves)
HALEY, Darrin Gregory - Feb 17,
1966 - May 14, 1989 ~ (son of
William David Haley & Daris D. GILLION; died in a car accident at
the age of 23)
HALEY, William David "Dub" -
May 14, 1928 - April 18, 2003 ~ Pvt.,
U.S. Army, 1955-1959 [1]
- (son of Jeff HALEY & Annie
E WESTMORELAND; md. Mar 1,
1955, in Itawamba Co., MS,
Daris GILLION; parents of Betsy Mae (Haley) DILL, David Wayne Haley,
William
Deloyd Haley, Adam Troy Haley, Belverly Dianna (Haley) CHAPPELL, Tammie
Renae Haley, Bobby Dale Haley and Darrin Gregory Haley)
HALEY, Daris "Red" - Jan 24,
1938 - Oct 7, 2001 ~ (dau
of David Erastus GILLION & Velva Lee PAINTER) [1]
(Five unmarked graves)
(Three unmarked graves)
PANTER, Audrie - 1912 -
1913
PANTER, Henry - 1910 -
1911
GILLION, Roy Jay - Sept 5,
1945 - July 19, 1986 ~ (son of David
Gillion & Velva PANTER; killed in
motorcycle accident)
GILLION, David Erastus - Jan
24, 1913 - Dec 7, 1987 ~ (son of
John Alexander Gillion & Mary FORD - Gillion family plot)
GILLION, Velva Lee Panter ~ (wife of David E.
Gillion; dau of Vol Panter & Ethel Eliza FROST - Gillion family
plot)
GILLION, John David "Monk" -
July 14, 1940 - (no date) ~ (son of
David Gillion & Velva PANTER - Gillion
family plot)
(One unmarked grave)
PAINTER, John Calvin - 1814 -
Jan 11,
1898
- (This
surname is spelled variously as PANTER and PAINTER in federal and
county records; Calvin PA(I)NTER settled in Fayette County at least by
1833, when tradition says he married Lucinda LAWRENCE; they were the
parents of Richard, Mary, Sarah, John, William Rufus, James, Matilda,
Millie, Charles and Benjamin Franklin PA(I)NTER; the family is said to
have been very active in the Pearidge Church of Christ) [1]
PAINTER, Lucinda - Nov 15, 1818
- Feb 28, 1874 ~ (nee Lucinda
LAWRENCE; wife of Calvin PAINTER)
PANTER, Mattie - Mar 11, ____ -
Mar 24, 1875 ~ (Mar
11, 1878 - Mar 26, 1878, per 1958 survey)
BEVAN, Leon - Feb 26, 1919 -
Mar 2, 1923
BEVAN, William C. - Oct 1, 1914
- Oct 30, 1914
BRAND, George W. - Feb 14, 1895
- Mar 29, 1895
BRAND, Infant of Gail and Mandy
Brand - b./d. July 1891
BRAND, Lucinda, wife of H.P.
Brand - Aug 18, 1816 - Dec 5, 1888 ~ (nee
Lucinda HENDON, dau of Johnson Hendon & Sarah SCOGGIN of Oglethorpe
Co., GA; md. Hezekiah P. Brand in Walker Co., AL) [3]
BRAND, Andrew J. - Oct 11, 1898
- Sept 11, 1923
BRAND, Elsie - Feb 4, 1905 -
Nov 22, 1997
BRAND, Tom - May 3, 1901 - Oct
8, 1932
(BRAND monument for three graves listed below)
BRAND, Daniel Kelsey - April 8,
1908 - April 28, 1981
BRAND, Daniel - Sept 16, 1928 -
Sept 26, 1928
BRAND, Addie Lou - Feb 19, 1905
- Dec 15, 1973
(Three unmarked graves)
ROBERTS, Gail - June 7, 1910 ~
(only one date)
ROBERTS, Emma - May 29, 1909 -
Jan 23, 1978
WRIGHT, Martha Susan - 1855 -
1939
(Three unmarked graves)
FOWLER, John Lewis ~ (son of Felix
Fowler & Gladys SMITH)
FOWLER, Emma Jean Gillion ~ (dau of David
Gillion & Velva PANTER; ssw John Lewis Fowler)
GILLION, Loyd Jr. "Bud" - May
5, 1939 - Oct 25, 1997 ~ (md/1
Mary Belle BAXTER; md/2 Mary -----) [1]
(Four unmarked graves)
WHITLEY, Jasper ~ Co. A, 1 Ala. Cav., C.S.A.
- (son
of Henry Whitley & Nancy BRIDGES; md. Mar 21, 1867, in Fayette Co.,
AL, Matilda PAINTER (sic), dau of Calvin & Lucinda PA(I)NTER;
father of Noah, Frances, Cordelia, Mary J. and Elizabeth Whitley)
[1]
KIMBRELL, Arnold J. - Sept 12,
1924 - April 11, 1994
KIMBRELL, Estell F. "Ess" ~ (wife of Arnold Kimbrell)
PANTER, James - Mar 14, 1846 -
June 24, 1901 ~ (son
of Calvin & Lucinda Panter; md. May 4, 1867, in Fayette Co., AL, Columbia
EIDSON; grave unmarked; birth/death dates from family record)
[1]
PANTER, Columbia "Cricket"
~ (dau
of Lewis EIDSON & Angelina DOBBS, b. Mar 1850; buried in unmarked
grave beside husband) [1]
SAWYER, John Thomas - Jan 26,
1865 - Mar 22, 1914 ~ (son of
James Hilliard Sawyer & Frances Mahulda BRASHER) 
[2]
SAWYER, Arlena L. - Apr 17,
1868 - Jan 18, 1910 ~ (dau of
James PANTER and Columbiana EIDSON; md. John Thomas
Sawyer, Jan 1, 1889) [2]
ssw = same stone with
Additional sources:
[1] Betsy Haley Dill, e-mail
message, 11 May 2005
[2] Monica J. Ruttledge,
e-mail message w/photos, 04 Apr 2006
[3] Ann Strickland Grainger,
e-mail message, 10 Jul 2009 (Ann's
ancestor, William Hendon, was a brother to Lucinda Hendon Brand;
original online survey suggested that Lucinda Brand's maiden name might
have been JOHNSON) 
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