Columbia County GaArchives Cemeteries.....Neal Family Cemetery
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Michele Lewis http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00027.html#0006732 March 2003

The Neal Family Cemetery is located on Happy Valley Lane,  north of Cobbham Road.  This is NW of
Appling, Columbia Co, GA.  The cemetery is located on private property.  It is north off of the dead end 
of Happy Valley Lane.  This is approx 1/2 mile off of Cobbham Road.

The cemetery is well maintained.  There is an approx 3 foot high and 2 foot thick stone wall 
surrounding the cemetery with stone steps.  There is a stone bench to the north of the cemetery.

Basil L. Neal
05 Apr 1837 - 13 Apr 1927
In front of this grave is a metal SAR
marker.

Martha F. Neal
13 May 1843 - 26 Jul 1918 
The above two are on a double stone.

Basil Neal Jr.
1834 - 1837

Basil Neal
GA Troops
Rev. War
(This is at the head of the grave)

Basil Neal Sr. 
1758 - 1849
(This is at the foot of the above grave)

Mary Ellen Briscoe
Wife of Basil O'Neal Sr.
1761 - 1828

The back of the above marker reads:
Mother of Eleanor O'Neal Smalley
Grandmother of Ferdinand Smalley Sr.
Great Grandmother of Joseph F. Smalley Sr.
Erected to memory of Ellen Biscoe O'Neal
by sons of Joseph F. Smally Sr.

Grave marked with a rough cut fieldstone.

Grave marked with a rough cut fieldstone.

Grave marked with a rough cut fieldstone.

Grave marked with a rough cut fieldstone.

Grave marked with a rough cut fieldstone.

Grave marked with a rough cut fieldstone.

Two of the above fieldstones could possibly be 
footstones.  They are smaller than the other stones.

Mrs. Amanda Booker
Wife of Simpson Booker
and dau of Bazil (note spelling) and 
Sarah H. Neal 
Died 14 Dec 1858, age 24 and 6 days.

Sarah Hall Green
Wife of Basil O'Neal
1798 - 12 Dec 1875
Erected by her descendents in 1961

The original marker to the above grave:
Mrs. Sarah H. Neal
Born 1798
Died 12 Dec 1875
Wife of Basil Neal

There is a memorial markers with the 
following inscription:
In Loving Memory
Levin Parker Neal - Mary Belle Fuller Neal
and their children
Franklin Palmer Neal
Martha Amanda Bennett
Ina Belle Cousins
Mildred Drake
Benjamin Llewelyn Neal

Franklin Neal
23 Sep 1910 - 22 May 1912

Just outside of the enclosed cemetery is a grave marked with a 
rough cut fieldstone for a headstone and a smaller one for the footstone.
This is on the north side of the cemetery.

This cemetery was surveyed by Michele Lewis http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00027.html#0006732 on 27 Mar 2003.