Individual Details

Thomas Sydnor Dunavent

(10 Jan 1886 - 15 Aug 1921)

Thomas Sydnor was the town blacksmith in Sledge Ms. He was killed by a Robert Frank Sorrells over a dispute about some tools that had been stolen from Thomas. The picture of his grave marker shows a middle name of Sidney, but his army draft registration shows his signature as being Sydnor which is spelled the same as his uncle with the same name who died in Martindale, Tx. 

Events

Birth10 Jan 1886Looxahoma, Tate County, Mississippi
Census-shared29 Jun 1900(Mary Christian Lucinda Greer) Lula, Coahoma County, Mississippi
Census-shared29 Apr 1910(Mary Christian Lucinda Greer) Lecont Street, Jackson, Madison County, Tennessee
Death15 Aug 1921Mississippi
BurialPleasant Grove Cemetery, Panola County, Mississippi

Families

FatherRobert Henry Dunavent Sr. (1851 - 1897)
MotherMary Christian Lucinda Greer (1858 - 1919)
SiblingEdna May Dunavent (1876 - 1916)
SiblingIra Shorda Dunavent (1879 - 1942)
SiblingAnnie Bolling Dunavent (1881 - 1959)
SiblingLena Maude Dunavent (1883 - 1962)
SiblingRobert Henry Dunavent Jr. (1889 - 1908)
SiblingVirgil Wayne Dunavent (1891 - 1973)
SiblingCecil Crafton Dunavent Sr. (1894 - 1963)

Notes

Census-shared

Mary C Dunavant Head F 42 Mississippi - Hotel keeper
Mary E Dunavant Daughter F 24 Mississippi - Teaching
Ivashands Dunavant Son M 22 Mississippi - Laborer
Anna B Dunavant Daughter F 19 Mississippi
Luna M Dunavant Daughter F 17 Mississippi
Thomas S Dunavant Son M 13 Mississippi
Robt H Dunavant Son M 12 Mississippi
Virgil W Dunavant Daughter F 9 Mississippi
Cecil C Dunavant Son M 5 Mississippi
Turley Mayhew Boarder M 62 Mississippi - Merchant
Thos M Garratt Boarder M 27 Mississippi - Clerk

Census-shared

Mary C DunaventHeadF51Mississippi
Annie DunaventDaughterF28Mississippi - Teacher, literary
Maude DunaventDaughterF26Mississippi - Teacher, public school
Sid DunaventSonM23Mississippi - Blacksmith shop
Vergel DunaventSonM18Mississippi - Sawyer, cabinet shop
Cecil DunaventSonM16Mississippi - Laborer, ice plant

Burial

Grave site is located on the far west side of the cemetery close to the north end.

Endnotes

1. "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M96J-T9F : 20 January 2015), Cecil C Dunavant in household of Mary C Dunavant, Beat 1 (part) Lula town, Coahoma, Mississippi, United States; citing sheet 13B, family 304, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,240,805..

2. "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MGXX-948 : 29 October 2015), Cecil Dunavent in household of Mary C Dunavent, Jackson Ward 3, Madison, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 173, sheet 17A, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,375,524..

3. Find A Grave Memorial# 90516501.