CANDLER COUNTY, GA - CEMETERY HENDRIX/HENDRICKS Cemetery ***************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm *********************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Betty Spaid Helen Sharpley Permission granted by the Candler Candler County Historical Society at P.O. Box 325, Metter, GA 30439 to post their Cemetery Book on-line. Files submitted by Betty Spaid and Helen Sharpley December 2005. They only have a few books to sell and don't plan to have another printing. The cost of the book is $30. including shipping. The book is hard bound, 449 pages with index. HENDRIX/HENDRICKS CEMETERY #52 The cemetery is located in the northeast part of Candler County. From Candler County Court House go east on Hwy 46 for 4 blocks. Turn left on Portal Hwy. After traveling 8.50 miles, turn north on Hendricks road 1.07 miles, turn left for .10 mile. Cemetery is on right in field. The cemetery has a chain link fence with gate. It is no longer used for burial. There are seven marked graves with stones. Earliest burial is 1828. Rows are from northeast to southeast. Graves are numbered from northeast to northwest. A-1 George B. Welsh Died Feb. 9, 1828-In his 59th year NOTHING IN MY HAND I BRING, SIMPLY TO THE CROSS I CLING A-2 Tabitha Buxton Hendricks 1810-May 21, 1831 Wife of John Hendricks, Mother of Eliza Ann Hendricks A-3 Elizabeth Dixon Hendricks Aug. 25, 1807-Sept. 11, 1877 A PRECIOUS ONE FROM US HAS GONE, VOICE WE LOVED IS STILL. A PLACE IS VACANT IN OUR HOME WHICH NEVER CAN BE FILLED. on recently place new slab is written. Mother of Mary, Martha, Nancy, Alexander, Lavinia, Eleanor, Robert, America, James Walter, Smart, Jerry (Jeremiah), Eugenia, and Merida. A-4 John Hendricks Dec. 9, 1804-May 26, 1890 Son of Daniel Hendricks and Mary Bowen Hendricks B-1 Otto Hendrix Aug. 3, 1902-Aug. 30, 1902 Infant son of C.R. and A.E. Hendrix GONE TO ETERNAL REST B-2 Annie Lena Hendrix Oct 2, 1889-Jan 11, 1901 Daughter of C.R. and A.E. Hendrix C-1 Eleanor A. Hendricks Oct. 24, 1886-Aug. 21, 1889 THE LITTLE CHILD HAS GONE TO REST WITH GOD (other writings on broken stone but not readable.) Surveyed February 27, 1997 by Lorine O. Hendricks.