Cosby Cemetery
Garland County, Arkansas
Beaudry Circle, Jessieville, Arkansas
Submitted March 11 2004
updated Aug.12, 2006
by: Carlotta Ragsdale
& Brenda Johnson
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Roy Ermie Cosby Jr. b. March 20, 1955 d. July 28, 1955
son of Roy Cosby & Tessie Ragsdale
Teressa Rose Cosby
b. July 3 1952 d. Oct. 1 1958
daughter of Roy Cosby & Tessie Ragsdale
Bobby Gene Cosby
b. May 22, 1948 d. June 1, 1959
son of Roy Cosby & Tessie Ragsdale
Roy Ermie Cosby
b. April 19, 1911 d. April 5, 2003
son of Jim Cosby & Jo Johnson
father of Edith, Etta Faye, Linda Sue, Jerry, Shirley, Bobby,
Jimmy, Joretta, Teressa, Mary, Roy, David, & Sheila
double marker w/
Tessie Mae (Ragsdale) Cosby
b. Nov. 11, 1918 d. Dec. 6, 2003
daughter of Andrew Ragsdale & Rena Baldwin
mother of Edith, Etta Faye, Linda Sue, Jerry, Shirley, Bobby,
Jimmy, Joretta, Teressa, Mary, Roy, David, & Sheila
married Nov. 11, 1933
Unmarked
Unmarked
A. T. Beardsley
b. Jan 26, 1837 d. Jan. 20, 1911
Hugh Cash
b. July 18, 1829 d. Jan. 29, 1916
double marker w/
Sena Cash
b. July 22, 1826 d. March 17, 1910
Hugh Morris
b. Nov. 22, 1910 d. June 17, 1912
son of C. L. & Rhonda Oates
Myrtle Jane Weber
b. June 26, 1909 d. Sept. 21, 1996
James A. Johnson
b. 1930 d. 1961
Mother: Julia Drucilla Johnson
Herbert Lee Johnson
b. April 10, 1911 d. April 30, 1978
Husband of Julia Drucilla Johnson
Julia Drucilla Johnson
b. Aug. 5, 1912 d. June 21, 2006 Age 93
Parents: Monroe & Ollie Chandler Johnson
Children: James - Wanda - Betty - Bill - Eugene - Anita
Betty S. Hamilton b. 1933 d. 2002
Daughter of Julia Drucilla Johnson
Wife of Raymond Hamilton
Raymond Hamilton
b. 1926 d. 2005
Husband of
Betty S. Hamilton
Bill H. Thomaston
b. July 8, 1938 d. July 1, 1991
Parents: Ernest Thomaston & Julia Drucilla Johnson
Ernest "Eugene" Thomaston
b. April 27, 1941 d. June 15, 2006 Age 65
Parents: Ernest Thomaston & Drucilla Johnson
Brothers & Sisters: James - Anita - Betty - Bill - Wanda
Wanda Shoemaker
b. 1931 d. 1989
Daughter of Julia Drucilla Johnson
Wife of
Roy Shumaker
Double marker w/
Roy Shumaker
b. Oct. 1927 d. April 1994
US NAVY
Husband of
Wanda Shoemaker
Stacey L. Ragsdale
b. June 8, 1971 d. March 12, 1972
marked but unreadable
Unmarked
Joseph Crawford Cozby
no dates
Co. H 4ALA CAV CSA
Coleman Cosby
b. March 7, 1886 d. July 29, 1909
W. A. Cosby
b. Jan. 1, 1883 d. Jan. 27, 1935
Clarence W. Johnson
b. 1916 d. 1961
Unmarked
Unmarked
Al Unreadable
William Green Johnson
b.1850 d.1921
married Martha Cosby
son of William Johnson & Sarah Jane Green
Martha Cozby Johnson
b. abt. 1865 d. no date
married William Green Johnson
married: Dec. 16, 1883
Robert E. Johnson
b. Dec. 24, 1888 d. Sept. 24, 1935
Thomas E. Johnson
b. 1885 d. 1944
Pete Genero
b. Nov. 22, 1988 d. Dec. 2, 1972
husband of Opal Virginia Johnson
Barbara Ann Genero
b. Jan. 28, 1941 d. Jan. 16, 1954
daughter of Pete Genero & Opal Johnson
Nancy Jane (Dickson) Johnson Jones
b. Sept. 2,1895 d. July 20,1981
mother of Linnie, & Opal
Opal Virginia (Johnson) Genero
b. Jan. 14 1921 d. Feb. 11 1989
daughter of Nancy Jane Dickson Johnson Jones
sister of Linnie Johnson Ragsdale
John Freeman Ragsdale
b. Jan. 3, 1927 d. May 16, 1991
son of Wiley Edgar Ragsdale & Ollie Cosby
husband of Mary E. Ragsdale
double marker w/
Mary E. Ragsdale
b. Feb.14, 1932 Open
wife of John Freeman Ragsdale
Geneva Dorthia Cosby
b. 1919 d. 1944
Ollie Dimple Cosby
b. 1906 d. 1941
first wife of Wiley Edgar Ragsdale
mother of John Freeman Ragsdale
mother of Rickie Ragsdale
Wilbert Lee Cosby
b. 1910 d. 1932
James Enoch Cosby
b. Dec. 9, 1871 d. 1944
son of Dee Cosby & Mary Louisa Arkansas Merriott
Minnie Cosby
b. 1883 d. 1942
Mary Louisa Arkansas Newkirk
b. Sept. 12, 1853 Age 96
daughter of James Wesley Merriott & Susan Geurin
married first Dee Cosby
mother of James Enoch Cosby
married second Hiram Newkirk
back of stone reads Placed by sister Lorena Frier
Richard Cozby
d. July 10, 1942 Age 0
James O. Cozby
b. 1947
Clifford Cozby Jr.
b. Nov. 17,18, 1949 d. Nov. 19, 1949 Age 1 day
Walker Lee Cozby
b. Nov. 27, 1952 d. Nov.19, 1973
Back of stone reads
Brickmasons Local # 11 U.S. ARMY Reserves Co. A 489 ENG BTN
Lillian W. Cozby
b. May 20 1928 Open
double marker w/
Clifton Cozby Sr.
b. Dec. 8, 1915 d. May 18, 1986
40 years of love
TEC 5 US ARMY WORLD WAR 11
Herman Willis Cosby
b. 1917 d. 1961
John Cosby
b. 1902 d. 1957
William Emery Cosby
b. Sept. 7, 1913 d. July 4, 1993
Lorena Frier
b. July 9, 1903 d. July 30, 1989
wife of Donald Frier
sister of Mary A. Newkirk
Donald P. Frier
b. Oct. 2, 1911 d. Dec. 15, 1961
Tec 4 9201 Tech SVC Unit World War 11
husband of Lorena Frier
Cora E. Fleener
b. May 24, 1900 d. Oct. 1, 1950
George Leatherbury
b. Dec. 9, 1929 d. July 30, 1985
A Friend of the Cosbys
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