"Lost
Graves" in Hancock County, Georgia
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| Who |
Where
in county |
More information |
| Edmund Butler and his wife, Frances Garrett Butler | Powelton | Buried on the Butler Plantation. He died 1801, 1802 or 1804 (depending on what family record you are reviewing). |
| Douglass Carroll | Shoulderbone Creek | Revolutionary War soldier. Bought land from Joseph Spradling in 1798. Died in 1827. Possibly buried on his property on Shoulderbone Creek. |
| Joel P. (Putnam)
Dickinson |
died 1820 or 1821 Hancock County. | |
| William Hudson | Died 1834 age 54 years somewhere in Hancock County. See Obituaries and wills in the main list of cemeteries. | |
| Margaret Hamilton Lanham, of Augusta, and her husband, William Lanham. Margaret Lanham died February 2d, 1913 at the age of 63 years | Family cemetery at Sparta | Margaret and William lived in Sparta after the war and worked in a mill before being married and moving to Augusta in the 1870s. Others buried there may be Asa and Sarah Lanham, William's parents. Margaret died Augusta, Ga., and was survived by two sons, Messr's Warren and E.F. Lanham, of Augusta; one brother W.H. Hamilton, and one sister, Mrs. Thomas Roberts of Sparta. |
| Emmett
Hartridge Lundy died about 1925 at age 47 His wife's name was Laura and son's name was Rollin |
Obituary shows he and his family were buried in Sparta City Cemetery | He was born in Greene County and was a rural mail carrier. He died at his sister's (Mrs Cooper Stanly's) home in Siloam. He may have been in Siloam for a few years before his death because he was ill for some time. His other sister was Mrs. Pearl Middlebrooks of Farmington. One of his sons was living in Sparta at the time of his father's death; his name was Gerald Lundy. |
| Peyton and Mary Lundy | Mount Zion | Died in Hancock Co. in 1823 and 1831 respectively. They came from Virginia during the early 1800s and settled near Mount Zion. |
| William MacClellan / MaClellan | Powelton | Believed by his descendants to be buried in the Powelton Baptist Church Cemetery. For more info on him, see will under Obituaries and wills in the main list of cemeteries. |
| Stephen Pearson | Buffalo, Pearson's Chapel area or near Zebulon | Born 1774 in Padgets Creek, Newberry District SC. Migrated to Hancock Co about 1825; Land Holding 1825 GA Tax Return 1462 acres near Buffalo. Also owned property around Pearson's Chapel area and or near Zebulon; could possibly be buried on his land. Married to Mary Ann Fletcher. Father of Stephen Edward Pearson, Jeremiah C Pearson, Flavius Pearson. Died 12 Mar 1854. |
| Lewis C. Pierson | Sparta | b. 1808 in New Jersey.
Lived in Richmond Co., Ga. and then Hancock Co. (Sparta). Owned Lot Number
35 in the Village of Sparta. He was a harness maker. Died 1869. Second wife
was P. Walker Simpson & their daughter (my grandmother) was Ellen Coleman
Pierson born Sparta 1854. |
| Joseph T. Sharp / Sharpe | Powelton | b.1835 d. abt1906 mar. to Naracissa Meadow / Meadows b. 1838 d. bef. 1870?. His dau. Rossie L. Mckinley is buried in the Powelton Cem. - He lived with her before her death and still continued to live with her husband Edgar L McKinley after daughters death. I have assumed he would have been buried near the daughter, but never found his wife's grave either. The family originally came from Taliafarro Co., Ga. |
| John F. Sherman (1780 - 1825) | Next to Coleman property, Buffalo Creek | from Meath County, Ireland to Virginia ca. 1800 - 02, and reportedly fought in the War of 1812. In Virginia he married ca. 1802 - 03 Nancy Coleman (daughter of Isham Coleman, born September 17. 1758 in Dinwiddie County, Virginia and died November 1, 1825 in Hancock County, Georgia). In December 1814 John Sherman left Virginia moving to Hancock County with his wife and Isham. John Sherman died in 1825 in Hancock County, evidently on the 224 acres of land he owned on Buffalo Creek, which was adjacent to the Coleman property, while Nancy later moved to Stewart County, Georgia, about 1836 where she died in 1843. |
| Elijah Wheeler | Born in June 1832 in Granville County NC, Elijah moved to Hancock County, GA in July 1853 and was still living there at his death 17 Jan 1903. His first wife Mary Wright died before 1900 and he remarried a woman named Emma before his death. |