Bethesda Cem. - 1961 /between Conway & Carthage, several miles off the
present main hwy;
there is a logging road part of the way.  On family property of Mrs. Mabel
Cooper Presley
/Originally there was a church; even the name has been corrupted with the
negroes called it
"Blessed Thirsty" or "Old Thirsty"

Treadwell, James  /d. 22 Nov, 1871 /age 74y
                Mary  /d. 15 Feb, 1854 /age 51y
Dismuke, James W.  26 Aug, 1809 /16 Mar, 1858
               Agnes White w/o James M.  18 Nov, 1814 /22 April, 1858
Presley, Harrett  1845 / 1912
Arnold, Lula E. (Presely) w/o RJ  16 Nov, 1874 /12 Oct, 1904
            Mary J. d/o EH & HV  24 July, 1877 /21 Sept, 1882
Presley, Jane  1815 / 1899 (gm/o Add & Louie Dickens)
b Cooper, Thomas Jamison - no stone
b             Myra Lewis w/o Thomas Jamison - no stone (gp/o Mrs.Mabel
Cooper Presley)
Cooper, O(tho) S(ingleton)  4 Mar, 1845 /27 Dec, 1928
b?          Dick brother of Otho - unmarked
Warren, Mary w/o Nathan  1 May, 1790 Sumner Co., Tn. /1 July, 1856 /66y 2m
20d
 Mary Warren was mary or Polly Jamison; she first married a Perry & then
after his death
 Nathan Warren.  She had no children, but left her very considerable land
holdings and
 slaves to Thomas Jamison cooper, the son of a deceased sister - her will
filled in Leake
 Co. 11 Aug, 1856, Bk I, pg 8-9-10-11. Mary was the d/o Rev. solder, Thomas
Jamison,
 see Nat DAR No. 45129. The gravestone is a huge marble slab approx. 3' x 7'
which lies
 flat on the grave. Mrs. Mabel Cooper presley tells that Thomas J. Cooper
sent a team to
 Meridian, Ms. for the stone and the trip took a week.

Information on Thomas Jamison Cooper in Leake Co., Ms. courthouse: Will
signed 4 Dec, 1882,
probated 5 Jan, 1883, mentions wife Myra L., Wm. H. Cooper (a son), N. W.
Cooper & Roxana
Waggoner (children), T. L. Cooper (son) & executor, Eddy C. Cooper.  Will
Bk. 1, pg. 112-113 /In
case 870 filed 4 Nov, 1884; issued 12 Dec, 1884, Bk 1, pg. 285, W. R. Lacey,
Administrator

Clipping in the Carthaginian Sat., 6 Jan, 1883: Thomas J. Cooper d. 20 Dec,
1882, b. 1811 in
Bedford Co., Tn., came to madison Co., Ms. 1835; mentions sons W. H.,
Richard of Tate Co., Ms.
and the present state senator T. L. Cooper