Bartow COUNTY, GA - CEMETERIES Antioch Church of Christ Cemetery ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Howard Withrow" April 2003 Antioch Church of Christ Cemetery, Bartow Co. Ga. Survey Started: 3-22-03 Survey Completed: 3-22-03 Directions: From Interstate 75, Exit 306 (Adairsville Exit) Turn West on Ga. 140 and travel approximately 4 miles to Big Ditch Road and turn right. While traveling this Road, the road will split to the left, travel straight and the pavement will end and a gravel road will continue. Where the pavement ends, Gordon Co. and Lancaster Road begins. Travel another 1/4 mile to the cemetery on the right. Established: Antioch Church of Christ is the parent church of the 1st. Christian Church, Now located on Hotel Street in Adairsville, Ga. Antioch Church of Christ moved there around 1908 and was renamed the Christian Church. According to Lancaster family letters, Antioch Church of Christ was established on the property Of William Reeves Lancaster and Betsy Ann Lancaster, with land and building being "Given for a place of worship as long as worship was held" in about August, 1886. The first families to become part of the church were: William Reeves Lancaster & Betsy Ann Lancaster and Children Robert H.A. Ellis & Matenzia Turner Ellis and Children William Jefferson Jackson & Isabelle Jackson and Children Mr. & Mrs. Jim Hall Mr. Ballew Jessie William Pelfrey & Mary Jane Pelfrey and Children The cemetery has 32 graves with only 12 identified. (*) Note from Church History published in 1986. DIAGRAM OF LAYOUT OF CEMETERY: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gordon/cemeteries/antioch.htm SURNAMES: BAGGETT, BOATMAN, COOPER, PELFREY, WELCH BAGGETT, b.June 7,1903 Infant of Mr. & Mrs. BAGGETT "Our loved one" BAGGETT, William Domey b.Aug. 12,1898 d.Mar. 18,1901 BAGGETT, Henry Lee b.Mar. 31,1901 d.Dec. 22,1910 "We will meet again" BOATMAN, Leamon A. b.Sept.28,1900 d.Nov. 30,1905 Son of W.M & S.A BOATMAN "Budded on earth to bloom in Heaven" (*) He was the grandson of LL & WW. WELCH and died of Typhoid Fever. COOPER, Nancy Jane b.July 15,1881 d.Oct. 6,1905 "She was ready to every good work" COOPER, G.W. b.Mar. 8,1882 d.Aug. 27,1905 "How great the loss when one so loved is taken" (*) G.W. & Nancy COOPER were a young couple that had not been married very long and died of Typhoid Fever. Nancy is the daughter of LL & WW. WELCH. PELFREY, Jessie b.July 28,1855 d.Aug. 23,1892 "Blessed is the dead that die in the Lord, Yea saith the spirit, they do cease from their labor and their works do follow them" PELFREY, Mrs. M.J. Died Age 72 PELFREY, M.V. d.Apr. 14,1890 (*) Has a fieldstone marker with the inscription carved into it. WELCH, Mrs. W.W. b.Jan. 9,1852 d.July 25,1920 (*) Listed as L.L. Welch Aged 68 yrs. 6 Months, 14 Days, "AT REST" WELCH, W.W. b.June 4,1838 d.Nov. 28,1906 "He was just and upright in all his ways" WELCH, Reuben b.Aug. 28,1861 d.Feb. 10,1911 (*) There are two cemented over graves marked PELFREY (*) Just past the PELFREY graves are the unmarked graves of two CHAMPION Children. There are also two FOUNTAIN children, the baby of Watt and Mary Ann WITCHER LOVELESS, and a SANDERS baby, which is off to one side. (*) Where the three BAGGETT children are buried, there are three more children graves. Two are probably BAGGETT children and the other is the stillborn child of Jim LANCASTER. (*) William Jefferson JACKSON was the first person buried at Antioch Cemetery but there is no marker. Many thanks to Mrs. Winnie McPhearson, for providing the Church History and to Mrs. Alma LANCASTER and her keen memory of events so many years ago,(*)and the forethought of Mrs. Martha Jane LANCASTER PIPPEN, who wrote her niece Alma LANCASTER, when she was 90 years old, recounting the Things she remembered of the events of the 1870's & 1880's.