Brantley County Georgia Hazlehurst Cemetery Waynesville File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by "Amy Hedrick" Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/brantley.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm HAZLEHURST CEMETERY Waynesville, Brantley County, Georgia Transcribed by: Amy Hedrick Email: amylyn@btconline.net This cemetery is located in Waynesville, Brantley County, Georgia on county road 158. When traveling west on Hwy. 82; go 1.2 miles past Old Post Road and C.R. 158 will be on your right. About two tenths of a mile on your left is the cemetery directly across from the Mumford House. There are 10 graves marked with stones in this cemetery. According to the Brantley County, GA website, in describing his venture into the Mumford estate, area writer, Carr McLemore, wrote in the Jesup Press-Sentinel, November 29, 1980, the following: "...farther along, where the vines grow dense, trees grow tall and moss hangs low, one may search for... the stately Mumford house." Upon his discovery of the Hazlehurst Cemetery, just across the road from the Mumford house, he writes "one goes through a veritable jungle in search for an old family cemetery...now for the researcher, the question arises: who really lies here? Oh, the names are there, but who were John M. Hazlehurst, Jane Johnston Hazlehurst, Mary Jane Hazlehurst and Layton (spelled Leighton) Hazlehurst?" This question is deemed one of the Mysteries of Brantley County. In Georgia's Land of the Golden Isles, Burnette VanStory writes that "In 1843 Mary Jane McNish was married (at John Couper's Cannon's Point Plantation on St. Simons Island) to Leighton Wilson Hazlehurst, the son of Robert and Elizabeth Wilson Hazlehurst whose families were among the earliest settlers of Glynn County". Also that "Ann Johnston McNish spent the war years with Mary Jane (her daughter) and her family at their summer home in Wayne County, where she died in 1869". Ms.VanStory goes on to recount that the Johnstons were related to the Coupers and when Ann and her sister, Elizabeth, were orphaned at an early age they were taken in and raised at the Couper home. John Couper's son, James Hamilton Couper also built a summer home (now called "The Lodge") less than a quarter of a mile from the Hazlehurst Cemetery. Further research will be conducted in an attempt to solve this mystery but without documentation one could speculate that James Hamilton Couper once owned the cemetery land and this could be the reason it was placed on this site. For additional information see http://www.rootsweb.com/~gabrantl/mumford.html. The following is a list of people that are buried in this cemetery. Name: Born: Died: HAZLEHURST, Fannie 11/01/1813 09/01/1867 "Darling" Tivi 08/03/1854 08/11/1856 HAZLEHURST, Emily 11/28/1853 11/10/1877 HAZLEHURST, P. Alston 11/18/1846 11/13/1877 JOHNSTON, Jane E. 12/04/1787 12/05/1877 "Our little" Jane 10/26/1853 11/03/1853 "To my Mother" 84 years old HAZLEHURST, Mary Jane 02/14/1822 04/17/1878 HAZLEHURST, Leighton W. 08/20/1820 08/02/1882 HAZLEHURST, John McNish 04/21/1847 07/01/1884 Relationship: Fannie Hazlehurst was Robert Hazlehurst's wife (not buried in cemetery) Tivi was Robert & Fannie Hazlehurst's infant daughter. Emily Hazlehurst was P. Alston Hazlehurst's wife. Jane E. Johnston was a relation to Mary Jane McNish Hazlehurst. It is unknown at this time who "Our Little Jane" & "To my Mother" are. Mary Jane McNish Hazlehurst was Leighton W. Hazlehurst's wife and they were the parents of John McNish Hazlehurst. ======================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for FREE access. ==============