An email arrived from Ernestine Cody Layton Sunday, Aug. 14, who after a break has resumed her genealogical research. She reports that special dedications are scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 8. She has ordered and had installed Confederate headstones for Charles Wesley Bucy at Saltillo, her great-grandfather and the grandfather of C. L. (Charlie) Bucy of Plantersville. She also has a headstone for Capt. James S. Lyles at the Andrews Chapel Cemetery at Mooreville. She explains that Lyles was the father of Charles Wesley Bucy’s wife Phoebe Ann Lyles Bucy and therefore is Charlie’s great-grandfather and her great-great-grandfather. “Sherry Ray from Okolona, my niece and president of the John Hart Chapter #2443 of The United Daughters of the Confederacy, is going to be the ‘widow’ at the dedication, and the Lt. John Sallis Camp #1776, SCV(Southern Confederate Veterans) Camp at Tremont is going to do the dedication,” she writes. Having both dedications on Oct. 8 is special, says Ernestine, since it is the birthday of her father, and the ceremonies are for his grandfather and great-grandfather.
Ernestine has lived in Harrisburg, Arkansas, near Jonesboro, since 1979. A number of family members live in Tupelo, Plantersville, and Okolona, and her only living sibling, Elizabeth Cody Hegland, resides in Huntsville, AL.
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