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E. P. Govan and family are in Marianna, Lee Co., AR in the 1870 census. Frank is there in the 1880 census, listed as Gouan. Since Frank (Francis Hawks Govan)was one of the founding members of the St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Marianna on January 18, 1880, perhaps there will be some mention of E. P. in their records. There is always the possibility that E. P. and Julia were sent back to the family burial ground at the plantation in Marshall Co., Mississippi. If you have a death date of 1881 for E. P., then he should have been on the 1880 census. Even if he had died in 1880, he should have been on it.
Record keeping for Cedar Heights Cemetery seems to be non existant. About 12 years ago I was there asking about records and was directed to the Police Station, where I was shown a typewritten survey of existing stones. The public library also had a copy. I believe Mrs. Jessamine Gist did the survey. I also know that some of the tombstones on one side and on the downslope side have been silted over. The little book put out in 1970 for the Marianna Centennial says the land was bought from the Worsham Estate, and that a Cemetery Association for Cedar Heights was formed in 1894. Minnie Govan was a second vice president of the association in 1927. It does not say when the land was bought, so it may or may not have been in use at the time Julia and E. P. died. This same Centennial booklet says there is another older cemetery in Marianna on Church Street across from the Presbyterian Church, but that it is overgrown. There was also one mentioned as "the family burial lot of the Cavinses, Thorntons, Joneses and Hites" on Highway 1 North near Cavins Branch.
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