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Simpson - Jones Cemetery, 65-3 Summary Report, page 1
SIMPSON - JONES CEMETERY, 65 - 3
Summary Report
This cemetery is located in the Northeast Quarter of Section 18, Township 5, Range 1 West. It is within Test Area 1, at the northern edge of Sheet 14 of the General Site Map series of October 1986.
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A common marker has been put in the center of this little cemetery to commemorate the names of several Simpson family members who are known to be buried here. In fact, it is claimed by descendants that there were other individual tombstones for these family members in the cemetery in the past. Some of the tombstones were apparently removed some time ago by unknown persons. There is a singular tombstone inscribed for “Mary Lou Jones, daughter of A. G. & Z. M. Proctor”. That is the only basis that can be determined for the inclusion of the name “Jones” in the name of the cemetery on Army maps. However, it has been determined that this Mary Lou Jones was surnamed “Proctor”, not Jones, and that Jones was apparently a “given name” applied to this infant in honor of family friends -not relatives. There is absolutely no evidence of any Jones family member being buried in the cemetery or ever owning any of the land around it.
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