Butts County GaArchives Photo Document.....MESSER-KNOWLES CEMETERY--DEED October 29, 1850
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MESSER-KNOWLES CEMETERY-Butts Co. GA-Deed, dated Oct. 29, 1850

On October 29, 1850, James Knoles(Knowles)Sr. of Henry Co. deeded 159 acres
(+ / -)to Thomas Cook of Butts Co. for $636.00. This parcel was part of landlot 
#186 / 8th district and is notable because of a one acre "square" set-aside for 
the family cemetery. The cemetery passage is underlined on this photocopy from 
Butts Co. Deed Book- "E", pages 523 & 524(spliced in this image). On October 
12, 1850, James Knowles had purchased 430(+ / -)acres from Henry D. Powell in 
the 12th district of Dooly Co. GA. A deed recorded in Henry Co shows that he 
owned land there as early as 1834. 

Born in Hancock County c.1801, James Knowles had settled his small family in 
Henry Co. GA by 1830. He moved to Butts Co. for about three years in the early 
1840s, then back to the same place in Henry Co. His wife Lucy(Thomas)Knowles 
had died September 10, 1837, and is the first family member known to be buried 
in this cemetery. It is believed that members of the Messer family were buried 
here earlier. There are two distinct sections. James Knowles' daughter,Christy 
Rebecca Messer, who died August 31, 1847(and her infant son)are also buried 
here. An examination of the cemetery in the 1980s indicated at least seven 
graves. Knowledge of the Knowles family burials came from the diary of James B. 
Knowles(son of James Sr.)who moved with the family to Dooly Co. in December 
1850. He returned to Henry Co. in Fall 1852, and began school there at the 
O'Dell Academy in Bersheba in January 1853. After two years at the school, he 
was asked to fill the teaching vacancy. He taught for for two years, then 
apprenticed under Dr. James H. Bryans at Worthville, in Butts Co. His diary
(1852-1858)is in the Georgia State Archives(microfilm).


Additional Comments:

For more details about the cemetery noted here, see page 324 of Butts County 
Georgia Cemeteries-Butts County Genealogical Society-2000, by Wolfe Publishing, 
Fernandina Beach, FL.(pg. 324). For more on the Knowles family and related 
families, see other entries on this site.

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