Dade County GaArchives Cemeteries..... BIBLE CEMETERY Rising Fawn, GA This file is part of the GA Tombstone Transcription Project http://www.usgwtombstones.org/georgia/georgia.html ************************************************ http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project & USGenWeb Archives by: Deborah Hampton Yeary (squirtchat@comcast.net) Surveyed: 12/1990 | Submitted: 12/5/2008 Contributor's Notes: With the aid of Donny Williams, a local long time resident of Rising Fawn, GA, I surveyed this cemetery. Unless you have the help of someone who knows the area you will not find this cemetery it is in a cow pasture. Directions (to the best of my ability and recollection): From Trenton, GA (I-59) get on Highway 11 this is the old Birmingham Hwy. Follow all the way through to Rising Fawn, (don’t blink) turn left on Cloverdale Rd. cross Lookout Creek. The cemetery is extremely unkempt and you can see that cows have been laying on the graves for years. Had it not been for Donny Williams I would never have found it. If you want to visit the cemetery get a highway map and a local resident. At this time 3/30/2005, I would venture to guess it might be impossible to find. The markers are recorded as found so as to be able to put family groups together. I recorded all fieldstones that clearly marked gravesites without markers and sunken graves without fieldstones or markers. Where possible I confirmed with family members or other genealogical sources the names of persons and dates without markers. When I was recording these cemeteries, I recorded them manually with pen and paper and also read the names and dates into a tape recorder which I then transcribed and compared the two. Every effort was made to record this cemetery as accurately as possible, if there is a conflict with a date please use other sources to verify. I cannot recheck this cemetery. The memorial erected (for Rev. Hamic) by Rev. Hamic’s churches and friends as a memorial to a true man of God and friend to man 1929. Reads as follows: For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God and house not made with hands. Abbreviations My notes are in parenthesis d/o=daughter of s/o=son of w/o=wife of h/o=husband of FS=fieldstones BIBLE, Edward Jackson PHILLIPS, Ruby Frances 9 Oct. 1889 Born and Died 8 Aug 1969 29 Sept 1919 d/o J. E. & Minnie Phillips BIBLE, Willie Grace Christy BIBLE, Lloyd G. 26, June 1902 31 Dec 1920 3 Apr 1960 9 Nov 1922 s/o Charles & Edith Married 25 Apr 1925 (other source gives 7 Nov as birth date) STEPHENS, Martha BIBLE, P.G. 22 Oct 1840 1862-1949 21 Jun 1904 CAMPBELL, Jennie B. Three (3) FS 1890-1964 Two (2) unmarked CAMPBELL, WILLIAM J. 1885-1944 BECKHAM, William T. HAMIC, John W. 15 Nov 1873 ( other source says born in 1879) 2 March 1853 6 July 1946 (FATHER) 18 Feb 1921 BECKHAM, Martha Ann STEVENS, Eveline w/o 19 Mar 1874 J.W. Hamic 17 Oct 1932 (MOTHER) 11 June 1843 (other source gives Apr as birth month) 26 Jan 1928 (Dade Co. Marriage Book: 2 Sept. 1875) HAWKINS, James Carl BIBLE, Washington Jackson 10 Dec 1940 8 Dec 1846 13 Dec 1940 s/o Carl & Gertrude 6 Oct 1869 (rock crypt) MOORE, Middleton M. BIBLE, George Washington (FATHER) 8 Mar 1909 18 Dec 1868 16 Apr 1912 27 May 1935 Masonic Emblem BECKHAM, Floyd G. BIBLE, PARALEE (MOTHER) 10 Jul 1901 6 Jan 1871 19 Sep 1901 27 May 1935 Order Eastern Star (other source gives 11 Nov 1925 as death) Four (4) illegible stones Six (6) FS BIBLE, Louis A. HAMIC, Mary A. 1 Oct 1898 19 Apr 1823 10 Nov 1898 8 Jul 1899 BIBLE, James N. HAMIC, Joseph 1 Sep 1886 17 Jan 1825 22 Mar 1904 23 Feb 1904 BIBLE, Mary E. HAMIC, Rev. W.R. 4 Jun 1888 19 Aug 1879 9 Aug 1907 w/o G.A.R. Bible 16 Nov 1928 (George Adams Rice Bible) His wife BIBLE, G. A. R. HAMIC, Mary Gilbreath (George Adams Rice Bible) 26 Sep 1880 10 Oct 1841 (No other date) 28 Jan 1920 (MASONIC EMBLEM) BIBLE, John Franklin BIBLE, John David 30 June 1865 17 Dec 1951 28 Jan 1926 17 Dec 1951 Other sources are from Dewey & Margaret Bradford records as told to Sue Forrester 5 Apr 1991. Which include the following: BIBLE, Louisa J. 1862-1939 LEWIS, John Franklin (Uncle Frank) 1847-1931