William P. Divers & Bessie E. Murphy Headstone Photo, Ebenezer Baptist Church Cemetery

Wm. Perry Divers, Feb. 28, 1877 - 1965. Bessie E. Divers, wife of W.P. Divers, July 22, 1882 - May 15, 1922. William Perry Divers was a son of Thomas Jarvis Divers and Virginia Catherine Craghead. He was a grandson of Oliver Perry Divers and Gilla Anne Ursula Dudley, and, John Craghead and Julia A. Smith. He was my 3rd cousin twice removed. On Sept. 9, 1916 he married Bessie Elizabeth Murphy. She was a daughter of Richard T. Murphy and Susannah Suggett, a granddaughter of H. August Murphy and Nancy Curry or Cuney, and, William Watts Suggett and Elizabeth Ann Robinson. On Dec. 16, 1925 he married Sara Ada Nicolson