Located in the field on the old Joe Ware property, about 150 yards east of the house and about 100 feet from Poticaw Bayou Rd. There are estimated to be close to 200 graves in the cemetery. Most are unmarked and unknown. Lewis Clifford and Maggie McMillan Kucifer had the cemetery registered with the Historical Society. To reach the Cemetery from the Town of Vancleave, go North on Hwy #57, cross bridge over Bluff Creek, right or East and Southeast on Poticaw Bayou Road 2.1 Miles to the intersection of Poticaw Bayou Road and Mt. Pleasent Road, continue Southeasterly on Poticaw Bayou Road for 1/8± mile more, cemetery is on the left, and is not visible from the road.
 Added by: Linda Ellis |
 Added by: Linda Ellis |
The cemetery was started in 1889 with the burial of John Lother Sumrall, and the last burial was Joseph Rogers in 1946. Perhaps as many as 200 graves are located there, with visible evidence being either of tombstones, depressions, or burials outlined in brick. The cemetery contains at least one family plot, that of the Rogers family, which is set off from the rest by a metal pipe fence. The cemetery also contains at least one Confederate Cemetery, Albert Brown Goff (1846 – 1914), who served in Company E, 36th Alabama Infantry, C.S.A from 1862 to 1865. This cemetery qualified, on April 27, 1990, for designation as a hisatoric cemeteryunder Criteria f of the “Criteria for the Certification of Historical Significance of Abandoned Cemeteries Under the Provisions of house Bill No. 780, Laws of Mississippi, 1971.”
[Compiled bu Linda Ellis, trancribed by Therman Kellar]
| Ware, Christie Tanner | 1927 | |
| Ware, Dorman Hes | Jun. 11, 1851 | Apr. 18, 1904 |
| Ware, Fritz | Sep. 20, 1918 | 1927 |
| Ware, James | 1827 | |
| Ware, James Ira | Mar. 14, 1880 | Nov. 23, 1905 |
| Ware, Print | Feb. 1, 1872 | |
| Ware, Sarah Ann Barbour | 1875 | Nov. 16, 1941 |
| Ware, Sarah Goff Tucker | Oct. 12, 1835 |
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Sources: FindAGrave, Linda Ellis, Therman Keller and Mississippi Genealogy Trails
My GGrandfather, James Collin “Collie” Ware 1860-1948) was raised there on “Ware’s Bluff” near Vancleave, MS.
I visited the area while on a trip home to Southwest LA, where Grandpa Collie died (Ragley, Beauregard Parish, Louisiana). I was just 2 years old in 1948. My mother, Lillian Edare Ware (1926-1986), chose my middle name to be, “Collin”. There are many different spellings of Grandpa Collie Ware’s names in a host of documents, including, many Census Records. Example: “Callan”, “Colin”, “Collen”, “C J” and more. The order of his first and middle names are reversed. Example: “James Callan”… Collen James”. Antidote: My name was misspelled on my
Official Birth Certificate: Maschal Colon”, rather than, “Michael Collin”!!! My grandfather, Robert Napoleon Ware (1892-1965), (s/o, “Collie” Ware), did not have good handwriting skills – he was indeed, the Beauregard Parish official (J of Peace) who completed my birth certificate!
I have been researching our family history (as well as many others, for over 35 years, and have my DNA with Ancestry, MyHeritage, and 23andMe.
I am looking forward to visiting you site and if I can be of assistance, I am certainly available (retired in1996).
Whose property is this now,i would like to go there,print ware is my great grandpa and fritz ware was grandpa leonard wares twin brother who drowned at poticaw. Any information on the rest would be great.