Corrections as of Oct. 15, 2010 to
Fields of Stone: Cemeteries of Jones County, Georgia
 since the book was printed

Please note:  Only selected corrections to the existing book are being made.   We are sorry, but adding new burials is impossible. 

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(1) Add new cemetery: A. N. Cemetery:

A. N. Cemetery

Location: From the railroad intersection in Gray, travel approx. 5 miles to Haddock, turn left on Ethridge Rd. and travel 1/4 mile to Haddock Dr. Turn right and travel approx. 2.2 miles to the stop sign at Fortville Rd. There is a woods road gate at a left angle and across Fortville Rd. The cemetery is located approx ¾ mile off the paved road, on private property and permission to enter this property can be obtained from Mr. Hamp Dowling.

Date surveyed: Apr 19, 2004
Cemetery Status: Inactive
GPS coordinates: N33.07722 X W-83.43057

Indexer(s) or Contributor(s): Earl Colvin

List of Graves

Pers No.	Name	Birth	Death	Inscription and Notes	Service
1	A. N.			"A. N." scratched in fieldstone.
2				Unmarked graves: Approximately 100 graves marked with fieldstone.

(2) Add new cemetery: Bonner Cemetery #2:

Bonner Family Cemetery

Location: From the railroad intersection in Gray, travel approx. 5 miles to Haddock, turn left on Ethridge Rd. and travel 1/4 mile to Haddock Dr. Turn right and travel approx. 2.2 miles to the stop sign at Fortville Rd. There is a woods road gate at a left angle and across Fortville Rd. The cemetery is located approx ¼ mile off the paved road, on private property and permission to enter this property can be obtained from Mr. Hamp Dowling.

Date surveyed: Apr 19, 2004
Cemetery Status: Inactive

GPS coordinates: N33.07504 X W-83.43057
Predominant race: White
Indexer(s) or Contributor(s): Earl Colvin

List of Graves

Pers No.	Name	Birth	Death	Inscription and Notes	Service
1	Sarah Elizabeth Lester Bonner	1847	1888	w/o J. O. Bonner
2	R. Edgar Bonner	1875	1888
3	Hunter H. Bonner			An infant.
4				Unmarked infant graves: 2 graves
5	Dennis Lester	1794	1870
6	Syrena Mullis Lester		1837
7	Rudolphus Dickerson Lester	Dec 15, 1822	Mar 28, 1899
8	Mary Ann Cason Lester	Mar 11, 1825	Jan 3, 1895
9				Unmarked adult graves: 3 graves
10	J. R. Bonner	Aug 7, 1840	Dec 14, 1917		CSA Captain Co H, 57 Ga Inf
11	Julia Lester Bonner	Oct 8, 1849	Aug 1, 1911	Shares same gravestone as Capt. J. R. Bonner

(3) Childs Cemetery, person 6:

            Change from: Ann S. Middlebrooks born May 8

            To: Anderson Joseph Middlebrooks  born May 6

(4) Sunshine Church Cemetery, person 160 Evie Reid Greene: Change from: born 1811, to 1891.

(5) Unmarked Cemetery #13 name change to McLeroy/ Walnut Creek Baptist Church Cemetery. 

Also add one grave:

2

Reuben McLeroy

ca. 1759

Feb 12, 1820

Was preacher of the Walnut Creek Bap Church. All info per Travis Ellis, gr gr gr grandson While a marker does not exist at the present time (May 2004), a marker has been ordered.

American Revolution

(6) Change the GPS coordinates of Red Cockaded Woodpecker Trail Cemetery to N33.1148314 X W-83.6936533

(7) Add new cemetery: Blassingame Fields Cemetery

Blassingame Fields Cemetery

Description: Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge

Location: From the intersection of the Round Oak/Juliette Rd and the Ocmulgee River Bridge travel approx. 4 miles to a foot travel road on the left. This foot travel road is ½ mile past the intersection of the Jarrell Plantation Rd. You will see an old house site over grown with wisteria. Follow the foot travel road remaining on the main route as there are several roads that turn off to the left. The cemetery is located approx. 1.3 miles off the Round Oak/Juliette Rd. on the right side of the foot travel road. There are approx. fifty graves, most of which are marked with only field stone.

GPS coordinates: N33.1088624 X W-83.7340407
Dist. 12 Land Lot 153
Date surveyed: Apr 14, 2005
Cemetery Status: Inactive

Other info: The only marked grave is very hard to read. According to refuge technicians, a Mrs. Karen McMichael stated that this may possibly be the John Beeland Cemetery although at this point that has not been determined.

Indexer(s) or Contributor(s): Earl Colvin

List of Graves

Pers No.	Name	Birth	Death	Inscription and Notes	Service
1	James Jackson		1929	Name and date difficult to read. This is our best guess.
2				Unmarked graves: Approx. 50 graves most marked by a fieldstone.

(8) Add new cemetery Pasturefield Rd. Cemetery

Pasturefield Rd. Cemetery

Description: Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge

Location: From the intersection of the Round Oak/Juliette Rd and the Ocmulgee River Bridge travel approx. 5.8 miles to the Pasture Fields Road on the left, this woods road is first road to the left past the Flat Rock Church. Traveling Norteast on Pasture Field Road you will cross a creek. The cemetery is ½ mile after the creek crossing on the right.

GPS coordinates: N33.1113697 X W-83.6781075
Dist. 12 Land Lot 107
Date surveyed: Apr 14, 2005
Cemetery Status: Inactive

Other info: This cemetery contains over 100 graves sprawling out in no discernable pattern. The graves are marked with field stones head and foot with sunken depressions.

Indexer(s) or Contributor(s): Earl Colvin

(9) Add new cemetery Chimney Cemetery

Chimney Cemetery

Description: Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge

Location: From the intersection of the Round Oak/Juliette Rd and the Ocmulgee River Bridge travel approx. 5.8 miles to the Pasture Fields Road on the left, this woods road is first road to the left past the Flat Rock Church. Traveling Norteast on Pasture Field Road approx. 2.5 miles you will come to an intersection where you will turn left and quickly come to another intersection where you will turn right on to Sugar Hill Rd. You will travel appox. ½ mile on Sugar Hill Rd. to a foot travel road on the right. Follow this foot travel road for 0.6 miles until you come to a small field. Travel 0.3 miles farther down the road and the cemetery is located on your left just past an old chimney and house place.

GPS coordinates: N33.1339484 X W-83.6763882
Dist. 12 Land Lot 55
Date surveyed: Apr 14, 2005
Cemetery Status: Inactive

Other info: No markers found.

Indexer(s) or Contributor(s): Earl Colvin

(10) Clinton Methodist Church Cemetery:
Lot 28, Person 2:

Add “Died in 63^rd year of age” to Nancy Wornum’s entry.

Lot 28, Person 3:

Add Wornum as last name.  Inscription should be Dau of Charles & Nancy Wornum.

Lot 35, Person 1:

Change husband’s first name to Samuel: Wife of Samuel Lowther.

Lot 35, Person 2:

Change Samuel Lowther’s death date to May 15, 1837.

Lot 35, Person 3:

Change inscription to be d/o T. M. & C. M. Furlow.

Lot 35, Person 4:

Change death year to 1838.

Lot 52, Person 1:
Change Maggie Belle Chiles to Maggie Belle Chiles Malum

Lot 57, Person 4:
Change John L. Roberts to John J. Roberts, July 23, 1839 - June 6, 1903.

(11) Highview Cemetery

Change #440 John Augustus Pursley’s death date from Jan to Nov 1, 1983.

(12) Add new cemetery: Little Rock Cemetery

Little Rock Cemetery

Description: Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge

Location: Is located in compartment 21. Drive down the Wildlife Drive past the Childrens’ Pond and Little Rock. You will come to a fork in the road, of which the right branch curves around down to Falling Creek and back up, to where the left branch meets it. Take the right fork, and the cemetery is located about 200 feet farther in the island that is formed by the roads. The cemetery lies in the highest point on that ridge.

The Wildlife Drive lies only about 200 feet south from the southernmost grave.

GPS coordinates: N33.0888232 X W-83.7192456

Date surveyed: Jul 1, 2005

Other info: The cemetery has over 20 graves marked only by fieldstones. The graves are oriented in several rows, and seem to follow the ridge.

Indexer(s) or Contributor(s): Liene Lucans

(13) Add new cemetery: Old Cedar Cemetery

Old Cedar Cemetery

Description: Piedmont Wildlife Management Area

Location: Located on the foot travel road that leads into compartment 15. Traveling west on Juliette road past the Island Cemetery field it is the first foot travel road off to the north. Less than 0.2 miles down this road there is a clump of cedar trees on the west side of the road, and the cemetery is located in this cedar stand. The cedars are located just before the first split in the road.

The graves are about 30 feet from the road, just northwest of a 26” cedar that is clearly visible from the foot travel only road. Two of the field stones are such that they can be seen from the road as well.

GPS coordinates: N33.09806 X W-83.6900007
Date surveyed: 07/01/2005
Cemetery Status: Inactive

Other info: There are at least six graves within this site, none of which have improved headstones, but most of which are marked with field stones.

Indexer(s) or Contributor(s): Liene Lucans

(14) Add new cemetery Mossy Stone Cemetery

Mossy Stone Cemetery

Description: Located just across the county line in Jasper County

Location: Located in compartment 12 off of Sugarhill Rd. From the four way where Sugarhill meets Bridge Out and Pasturefield Road, go NE on Sugarhill 2.5 miles. On your right is a foot travel only road. Travel E on this road less than one tenth of a mile. When you reach the top of the first hill, there is the remnant of an old road going off to the right. If you follow this road for a very short distance, you will come to a large open area with many mature red oaks and dogwood. The cemetery is located in this clearing.

GPS coordinates: N33.1554962 X W-83.6674982
Date surveyed: Nov 2005
Cemetery Status: Inactive

Other info: The road that the cemetery is located on loops around the cemetery and connects back to the foot travel only road that leads out to Sugarhill Rd. However, on the west side of the loop there is another road that leads off to the homesite and eventually connects with Sugarhill Rd.

Indexer(s) or Contributor(s): Liene Lucans

List of Graves

Pers No.	Name	Birth	Death	Inscription and Notes
1				Unmarked graves: At least 60 graves arranged in 5 rows,which run north and south. None are marked other than with field stones.

(15) Add unmarked graves to Miller Family Cemetery - Change persons 7-10 to persons 7-14 arranged as follows:

7	Amanda Louise Smith Miller	May 25, 1839	May 17, 1921	Unmarked adult grave: 2nd w/o Jeremiah Miller. All info per the late Mrs. Carolyn Wellborn Haskins.
8	Jeremiah Miller	Feb 14, 1810	Dec 1, 1867	Unmarked adult grave: Father of 15 children. All info per the late Mrs. Carolyn Wellborn Haskins.
9	Harriet Miller	Apr 16, 1810	Apr 8, 1855	w/o Jeremiah Miller
10	John Pounds		Aug 1, 1922		Military Service: Georgia Pvt. 316th Serv. Bttn. QMC
11	Sam Williams
12	M. F. Miller	Sep 17, 1878	Feb 19, 1884	Killed by cyclone
13	John Jacob Miller	Mar 18, 1767	Mar 4, 1837	Unmarked adult grave: In the stone wall area. All info per the late Mrs. Carolyn Wellborn Haskins.
14	Aseneth Adair Miller	Mar 6, 1781	Jan 23, 1844	Unmarked adult grave: w/o John Jacob Miller. In stone wall area. All info per the late Mrs. Carolyn Wellborn Haskins.

 (16)  Cabiness Cemetery – Person 3

Change Sarah Kirk Cabiness to w/o Harrison Cabiness.

(17) Add new cemetery: New Salem Church Property Cemetery (Unmarked)

New Salem Church Property Cemetery (Unmarked)

Description: New Salem Church Road

Location: From the railroad intersectioin in Gray, take Ga. Hwy. 18 east to Ga. Hwy. 49. Turn left and travel approximately 3.3 miles to New Salem Church Rd. Turn left and travel approximately 0.3 mile to the church. The cemetery is located on church property approximately ¼ mile behind church.

GPS coordinates: N32.98606 X W-83.42968
Date surveyed: Jul 16, 2006
Cemetery Status: Inactive

Other info: The cemetery is on a hill with 4 granite slabs which measure 3' x 4' lying in a row. There are also 60-100 graves marked with field stone and depressions. There are no markers with inscriptions. It is believed that some of the family names buried in this cemetery are Morris, Brown, Gibbs and Anderson, this information made available by Mr. Cecil Patterson, Sr.

Indexer(s) or Contributor(s): Earl Colvin

List of Graves

Pers No.	Name	Birth	Death	Inscription and Notes	Service
1	Morris			Unmarked grave: Name per Cecil Patterson, Sr.
2	Brown			Unmarked grave: Name per Cecil Patterson, Sr.
3	Gibbs			Unmarked grave: Name per Cecil Patterson, Sr.
4	Anderson			Unmarked grave: Name per Cecil Patterson, Sr.
5				Unmarked graves: 60-100 graves marked with fieldstones or identifiable as depressions.

(18) Add new cemetery: Unnamed Cemetery 26

Unnamed Cemetery 26

Description: New Salem Church Road

Location: From the railroad intersectioin in Gray, take Ga. Hwy. 18 east to Ga. Hwy. 49. Turn left and travel approximately 3.3 miles to New Salem Church Rd. Turn left and travel approximately 0.5 to the Stop sign. Turn right and travel approximately 0.5 mile to a metal gate on the left. The cemetery is located in the wooded area to the right of the gate.

GPS coordinates: N32.99741 X W-83.42005
Date surveyed: Jul 16, 2006
Cemetery Status: Inactive

Other info: Up-right markers with inscriptions have been known to exist in this cemetery although none were found in our survey. Twelve to fifteen sunken graves marked with field stone were found and it was apparent that a large clearing had been made for timber harvesting immediately adjoining the cemetery. The location of the markers is not known at this time.

Indexer(s) or Contributor(s): Earl Colvin

List of Graves

Pers No.	Name	Birth	Death	Inscription and Notes	Service
1				Unmarked graves: Upright markers destroyed or missing. At least 12-15 graves marked with fieldstones remain.

(19)  Reuben Roberts Cemetery – person 8

Change entry on Reuben Roberts to:

Name	Birth	Death	Location
Reuben Roberts		Nov 20, 1843	Person 8 in Reuben Roberts Cemetery
Inscription and Notes: 84 Yrs. Old		Service: Military Service: American Revolution S.C. Troops

(20)  Black Memorial Cemetery

Add an “s” to Tufts in persons 2 and 3:

Pers No.	Name	Birth	Death	Inscription and Notes	Service
2	Cornelius Tufts	Feb 7, 1921		h/o Annie M. Tufts
3	Annie M. Tufts	Sep 25, 1918	Feb 26, 2000	w/o Cornelius Tufts

(21) Change the name of King #2 Cemetery to Urias “Rice” Kitchens Sr. Family Cemetery

Add these graves per Bill Kitchens, billkitc@bellsouth.net.nospam (remove .nospam from e-mail address before e-mailing).

Pers No.	Name	Birth	Death	Inscription and Notes	Service
3	Urias "Rice" Kitchens	1813	Dec 7, 1875	Unmarked grave: All info per Bill Kitchens
4	Sarah Johnson Kitchens	1813	1879	Unmarked grave: Wife of Urias "Rice" Kitchens. All info per Bill Kitchens
5	Polly Ann Kitchens Martin	Dec 24, 1838		Unmarked grave: All info per Bill Kitchens
6	Alexander Martin			Unmarked grave: Husband of Polly Ann Kitchens Martin. All info per Bill Kitchens
7	Alexander "Alec" Kitchens	Jun 9, 1850		Unmarked grave: Son of Rice and Sarah Kitchens. All info per Bill Kitchens

(22) Added newly found cemetery:

Unnamed Cemetery 27

Description: Hidden Lakes Subdivision in Gray - possibly "Sleepy Hollow" Plantation

Location: From the intersection of Railroad St. and the Ga. Hwy. 18 Connector travel east approx. 5 tenths of a mile to Hidden Lakes Dr. and turn right. Travel 6 tenths of a mile to 225 Hidden Lakes Dr. (Quirk Family). The cemetery is located in a wooded area behind this property.

GPS coordinates: N32.98974 X W-83.54133
Dist. 9 Land Lot 18
Date surveyed: Mar 15, 2008
Cemetery Status: Inactive

Other info: Possibly this cemetery would have been on the Plantation known as "Sleepy Hollow" which was owned by Robert Vines Hardeman.

Indexer(s) or Contributor(s): Earl Colvin

List of Graves

Pers No.	Name	Birth	Death	Inscription and Notes	Service
1				Unmarked graves: Stone enclosure approx 8' X 14'
2				Unmarked graves: 6-8 graves outside stone enclosure

(23) Added newly found cemetery: 

Smith Cemetery

Description: Stewart Farm Road near James

Location: From the railroad intersection in Gray travel east on Georgia Highway 18E approx. 4.1 miles and turn left onto Friendship Church Rd. Travel approx. 3 tenths of a mile and turn left onto Stewart Farm Road and travel approx. 3 tenths of a mile and stop. The cemetery is on the right side of the road approx. 100 yards off of the right of way. It consists of three graves with slabs. The grave in the middle is the only one in tact with the other slabs being fallen into what appears to be brick vaults.

GPS coordinates: N32.97233 X W-83.47689
Dist. 6 Land Lot 156
Date surveyed: Mar 15, 2008
Cemetery Status: Inactive

Indexer(s) or Contributor(s): Earl Colvin

List of Graves

Pers No.	Name	Birth	Death	Inscription and Notes	Service
1	Sadie M. Smith	Feb 13, 1926	Oct 30, 1978
2				Unmarked graves: 2 graves with slabs falling into brick vaults

(24) Correction to Clinton Cemetery on Randolph St.
Change

1

Frances Gibson

Jan 6, 1855

To

1

Mrs. Frances Gibson

Jan 16, 1855

Change

2

Julia F. Gibson

1815

Sep 17, 1833

To

2

Julia A. F. Gibson

1815

Sep 17, 1835

Died in the 20th year of her age

Change

4

Elizabeth T. Gibson

Oct 5, 1850

Aug 6, 1851

d/o T.F. & Elizabeth M. Gibson

 To

4

Elizabeth T. Gibson

Oct 5, 1850

Aug 16, 1851

d/o T.F. & Elizabeth M. Gibson

(25)  Correction to Perdue Cemetery

Change

17. Josephine Lestel Perdue

Jul 27, 1903

To

17 Josephine Lester Perdue

Jul 27, 1903

(26) Correction to directions to Jones/Flewellen Cemetery: ...Travel approx. 3.1 miles to Cheehaw Trail and turn right.

Change

4   Nancy Flewellen

Nov 29, 1852

To

4   Nancy Flewellen

Nov 29, 1832

(27) Add the following cemeteries:

Unnamed Cemeteries 28 and 29, and Cedar Creek Mound Cemetery (no marked graves).