Contributed by Mike Herrington Updated: 04/20/2011
Small cemetery with ten graves located south of Ranger near the
airport. This is a family cemetery. The oldest couple are J.B.
(James Becton) Ames (d. 1901) and his wife Frazier Marie (Hopkins)
Ames. Three of the graves are their adult children: Mattie Green,
J.B. Ames (d. 1937), and Frank Ames. Maggie (Hopkins) Limscott
is the sister of Frazier M. Ames. The other graves are Maggie's
husband C.M., Frank's wife Pauline, and two children born to J.B.
(the younger) and Frona Ames. They are Betty Sue Barker Brown and
an unnamed premature baby boy presumed born around 1925.
Names Birth Death
J.B. AMES 1859 1901
FRAZIER MARIE AMES 1858 1929
FRANK AMES 1890 1938
PAULINE AMES
C.M. LIMSCOTT 1845 1922
MAGGIE LIMSCOTT 1855 1922
BABY BOY AMES 1925 1925
J.B. AMES 1895 1937
MATTIE GREEN 1879 1906
BETTY SUE AMES BROWN 1930 2006
NOTE: Frona Carr Ames (1899-1970) and her son
J.B. Ames, Jr. (1923-1943) are buried in the
Evergreen Cemetery in Ranger.
