Rakes Cemetery

RAKES CEMETERY
Tarpon, Route 607; Newberry Ridge Road
Documented by Christena Fuller Nov. 09, 1999

Photos and kinship notations by Ginger Rakes Fisher and Gayle Fuller Stanley added June, 2006

(16 graves, 4 marked only by uninscribed field stones)

 

 

Beverly, J. C.
Aug. 24, 1928
Jan. 29, 1931
"He is gone to the mansion to rest"

(John C. was the son of Frederick A. Beverly and Sarah Victoria Rakes;

grandson of John Manerce Beverly and Margaret Stanley, and Charles Greenville Rakes

and Mariah Mullins)

 

 

Beverly, Lois
July 16, 1925
July 17, 1925
"Gone to a better land"

(Lois was the daughter of Frederick A. Beverly and Sarah Victoria Rakes)

 

 

Burchett, Dora R.
Feb. 17, 1894
Sept. 13, 1979

(Dora Lucinda Rakes-Burchett was the daughter of Charles Greenville Rakes and Mariah Mullins; granddaughter of Aaron Dehart Rakes Sr and Martha Lucinda Cruise, and

Solomon L. Mullins and LouAnna “Annie” Reed.

Dora married 1st to Joseph Moore and 2nd to Walter Burchett)

 

 

Burchett, Walter
Dec. 26, 1895
Jan. 26, 1966
PFC -Mg - Co 51 Inf World War I

(Walter was the son of William Henry Burchett and Arminta Caroline “Mintie” Blackburn.  He married 1st to Virgie Lee Yates, 2nd to Dora Lucinda Rakes)

 

 

Lambert, Sharon
Jan. 17, 1965
Jan. 17, 1965

  

 

Newberry, Clyde
Aug. 23, 1906
Dec. 06, 1975
"Gone but not forgotten"

  (Son of Henry Newberry and Rhoda Cochran Newberry Kaylor)

 

Newberry, Mary
Aug. 23, 1906
Nov. 10, 1973
"Gone but not forgotten"

  (Wife of Clyde Newberry, daughter of George Mc. 'Zachariah' Moore and Sarah Elizabeth Stanley Moore )

 

 

Rakes, A. D.
Oct. 26, 1822
Dec. 15, 1908
"He died as he lived a Christian"

(Aaron Dehart Rakes Sr. was the son of Chesley Aaron Rakes and Sarah “Sallie” Dehart;

father of Charles Greenville Rakes; A. D. married Martha Lucinda Cruise, daughter of

John Cruise Sr and Mazy Martin)  

 

 

 

Rakes, Charles G.
Apr. 20, 1867
Aug. 08, 1959
"Farewell until we meet again"

(Charles Greenville Rakes, son of Aaron Dehart Rakes and Martha Lucinda Cruise;

he married Mariah Mullins, daughter of Solomon L. Mullins and LouAnna “Annie” Reed) 

 

 

 

Rakes, F. J.
Mar. 20, 1886
May 12, 1894

(This is Fannie Joyce Rakes, daughter of Thomas Chesley Rakes and Martha Jane Colley; granddaughter of Aaron Dehart Rakes Sr and Martha Lucinda Cruise, and Richard Johnson Colley and Mary Ellender “Ellen” Hill) 

 

 

Rakes, Lucinda
Dec. 30, 1826
Mar. 30, 1905
"A tender mother and faithful friend"

(Martha Lucinda Cruise-Rakes, daughter of John Cruise Sr and Mazy Martin; wife of

Aaron Dehart Rakes Sr.)

Rakes, Mariah
July 28, 1858
Dec. 23, 1948
"She was the sunshine of our home"

(Mariah Mullins-Rakes, dau of Solomon L. Mullins and LouAnna “Annie” Reed; granddau of William M. “Pound Bill” Mullins and Elizabeth Culpepper Justice, and George D. Reed and Nancy Scaggs.  Mariah married 1st to Preston T. Haynes and 2nd toCharles Greenville Rakes)           

      

 

Rakes, Thomas R.
1899 - 1979
"Gone but not forgotten"

(Robert Thomas “Tom” Rakes, son of Charles Greenville Rakes and Mariah Mullins; grandson of Aaron Dehart Rakes Sr and Martha Lucinda Cruise, and Solomon L. Mullins and LouAnna “Annie” Reed.  Tom married Vesta Mae Mullins.   

 

 

Rakes, Vesta May
1900 - 1968
"Gone but not forgotten"

(Vesta Mae Mullins-Rakes, daughter of Samuel Patton Mullins and Elizabeth Mullins; granddau of Spencer “Maje” Mullins and Sarah E. Artrip, and Thomas Mullins and Nancy Bartley.  Vesta married Robert Thomas “Tom” Rakes.   

 

 

Rakes, W. L.
Oct. 15, 1872
Feb. 16, 1894
"He is not lost, but gone before"  

(William Linkus Rakes, son of Aaron Dehart Rakes Sr and Martha Lucinda Cruise; grandson of Chesley Aaron Rakes and Sarah Dehart, and John Cruise Sr and Mazy Martin.  William married Ona Katherine Newberry, dau of David Peter Newberry and Jane Arrington)   

 

 

Yates, Annie May

May 31, 1886
Mar. 12, 1901
"We trust our loss will be her gain, and now with Christ she's home to reign"  

(daughter of Thomas M. Scott Yates and Teny Elizabeth "Betty" Rakes Yates)

 

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