Charlton County GaArchives Photo Place.....Leigh/Gibson  Cemetery Plot April 2006
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Jerry Norman Crews normcrews@yahoo.com July 11, 2010, 4:26 pm

Source:             Leigh/Gibson Cemetery
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This plot is  all that remains of an older  cemetery(reported to be large with 
mostly wooden markers as late  the 1920's).It lies on a  hill at Bailey's 
Branch on Ga. highway 252 and was  almost ruined by highway constuction lying 
only feet from highway. It was near the old stagecoach  route that ran  thru  
Centre Village on the route to  Kings Ferry Florida and was probably 
abandoned  for a newer cemetery (Antioch)about 1/2 mile  upstream..It is 
mostly referred to as  the Gibson cemetery  because of a memorial marker for 
John Ellis Gibson who was buried on a civil war  battle-field...while the  
actual graves  are James  Joyce  Leigh (his  wife Mary Malphus is buried  at  
Sardis  Primative  Baptist cemetery  a few  miles  west),his  daughters Emily 
B. Leigh  Gibson and Beleen Leigh  Hagin ,and  his gandchildren  Mary C. 
Leigh  and James R. Hagin..there  is also inside the plot's  wall  a broken  
marker belonging to  a  Evalina Johns.  She is  not  though to be  buried  
there but  her stone laid  there for  protection  from  the  abandoned  area 
nearby

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