Crisp County GaArchives Photo Tombstone.....Knowles, James 
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Larry C. Knowles http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00012.html#0002854 April 30, 2006, 4:54 pm

Cemetery:           Smoak Cemetery, Crisp Co. GA
Name:               James Knowles

Date Of Photograph: May 8, 1986
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Knowles-Whitfield-Odom---Smoak Cemetery, Crisp Co. GA

In this photograph, brothers, Gerald S. "Bill" Knowles and Bernard Franklin 
Knowles(late of Henry, and Rockdale counties)stand near the grave believed to 
likely be that of their great grandfather, James Knowles Sr. The five "pink-
tinted" stones in the immediate background are those of James Knowles'daughter, 
Martha C. Whitfield; her husband, George D. Whitfield; their son, James H. 
Whitfield;and two grandchildren, Willie I. K. and George Abraham Odom, the 
children of their daughter, Lucy J.Odom, wife of William David Odom. It has 
been suggested that the brick enclosure is, instead, the grave of Lucy J. Odom
(who died about 1922)with her husband William D. Odom buried elsewhere in the 
cemetery. It is possible that James Knowles Sr. is in fact buried in the long 
neglected Primrose cemetery, further up Cedar Creek(see quotes below).

James Knowles Sr. was born in Georgia c.1801, probably in Hancock Co. He 
married Lucy Thomas in adjacent Greene Co. in 1823, and had settled in Henry 
Co. by 1830. Lucy Knowles died in 1837, and is buried in a family cemetery in 
adjoining Butts Co. Daughter, Christy Rebecca(d.1847)is also buried in Butts 
Co. There were at least three other children: Martha C.(b.1829), Elizabeth
(b.1831)and James Bellah(b.1833). In December 1850, James Knowles Sr. moved his 
small family to Dooly Co.(on 1851 tax digest). In fact he purchased land 
divided by Cedar Creek, which became the countyline of Worth Co. in 1853. He 
evidently lived in both counties. He died on August 15, 1857, and his estate 
was processed in Worth Co. Daughter Martha had married George D. Whitfield in 
Worth Co., Dec. 18, 1856; but, sister Elizabeth married John T. Hart in Dooly 
Co., Sept. 15, 1857(she likely then lived with George & Martha, on that side of 
the creek). 

Son, James B. Knowles, attended school at Fort Early much of 1852, but in the 
fall he had returned to Henry Co. where he enrolled in the O'Dell Academy in 
January 1853. He attended for two years, then taught for two more, before 
studying medicine in Butts Co., where he learned of his father's death. His 
journal(1852-1858)- a diary, now in the State Archives, microfilm-private 
papers, supplied many facts about the family. On Sept. 30, 1857 James, sister 
Elizabeth, and niece Lucy(perhaps, sister Rebecca's child)visited the grave of 
his father: "..went to where Pa was beried, about one mile and a half up the 
creek.." On Oct. 17th: "We all went to meeting at Primrose Hill, Martha, Lizey, 
Lucy & myself. Powell preached, then came home with us. Went back to meeting at 
night. He(then)went to Bryan's".

There are similar entries for James B. Knowles' visits to South Georgia during 
the span of his diary. For more on the Knowles family see, Knowles In Georgia 
Website:  

http//:members.tripod.com/knonga

Additional Comments:
Smoak Cemetery was in Dooly Co. until Crisp Co. was formed in 1905.

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